RESERVE
The United States holds vast reserves of critical minerals.
They are not missing. They are misfiled — sitting inside material the country has already dug up, burned, or thrown away.
VETERAN-OWNED · BESSEMER, ALABAMA · EST. 2019
America's critical minerals are already mined. They're just locked in the waste.
ARM recovers high-purity rare earth elements and critical metals from e-waste, mine tailings, coal ash and industrial residues — in a single continuous, closed-loop process, at a fraction of the time and cost of conventional solvent extraction.
FIG. 01HIGH-PURITY RARE EARTH OXIDES PRODUCED BY ARM FROM PENNSYLVANIA COAL MINING WASTE FEEDSTOCK
2019FOUNDED ON A DOE AWARD
100+PATENTS & APPLICATIONS — CSO
PHASE 2BDEMONSTRATION SCALE, EPRI
AGNOSTICFEEDSTOCK, ONCE IN SOLUTION
01
THE BOTTLENECK
WHY DOMESTIC SUPPLY STALLSLOCK
Those reserves are locked inside waste streams.
E-waste, mine tailings, coal ash, electric arc furnace dust and other industrial residues — complex, multi-metal, and difficult to separate.
CONSTRAINT
Conventional processing cannot scale fast enough.
Solvent extraction is slow, capital-heavy and waste-generating. The gap is not geology. It is a processing bottleneck.
02
THE PLATFORM
ONE CONTINUOUS CLOSED LOOPARM's transformational technology is a multi-purpose processing platform that produces high-purity critical minerals and valuable metal co-products in a single, closed-loop process.
Selective leaching, continuous ion exchange and simulated moving bed chromatography are integrated end to end. Once metals are transferred into solution the platform is feedstock agnostic, enabling selective separation and high purification of complex multi-metal mixtures. The systems are modular and skid-mounted, so capacity scales by replication rather than by rebuild.
FULL TECHNICAL OVERVIEW →STAGE 01
Selective leaching
Target metals are transferred out of the solid waste matrix and into solution.
STAGE 02
Continuous ion exchange
The loaded solution is concentrated and conditioned without batch handling.
STAGE 03
Simulated moving bed chromatography
Adjacent rare earths and critical metals are separated to high purity, continuously.
STAGE 04
Product finishing & loop return
Functional oxides and metal co-products are recovered; reagents return to the loop.
03
FEEDSTOCKS WE PROCESS
WASTE IN — PRODUCT OUT01
E-waste
End-of-life electronics, magnets and circuit assemblies.
02
Mine tailings
Legacy waste rock and coal mining by-products.
03
Coal ash
Utility impoundments and stockpiled combustion residuals.
04
EAF dust
Electric arc furnace dust from domestic steelmaking.
05
Industrial residues
Process sludges, spent catalysts and refining by-products.
05 · WHERE WE ARE
Built in Bessemer. Backed by the Department of Energy, EPRI, USDA and the State of Alabama.
From a 2019 DOE award recovering rare earths from coal mining waste, ARM has advanced through bench, pilot and demonstration scale — and into coal ash and electric arc furnace dust under two consecutive Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund awards.
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