Texas Mineral Resources Corp. (TMRC) announced the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technical Laboratory (“NETL”) has selected a Texas Mineral Resources-led consortium to continue a contract targeting the production of rare earths from Pennsylvania coal waste.  This contract option continues the successful completion of the first phase of a DoE solicitation award in September 2020. TMRC’s project partners include Penn State, Jeddo Coal Company and McCarl’s. The Texas Mineral Resources consortium objective is to ultimately install a self-contained, modular and portable pilot plant at a Jeddo Coal Pennsylvania site, capable of producing 1-3 metric tons of rare earth oxides derived from coal waste material from Pennsylvania anthracite coal.  The project commenced October 1, 2020 and resulted in the TMRC consortium successfully concluding a three-month conceptual design phase. This is the fourth U.S. Government award relating to the production of rare earth minerals in which Texas Mineral Resources has participated.  In 2016, TMRC announced it had successfully completed a demonstration-of-concept project funded by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Strategic Materials Division to separate and refine specific high-purity rare earth elements, using a continuous ion exchange (CIX) and continuous ion chromatography (CIC) processing method.   In 2019 a consortium including Texas Mineral Resources consortium successfully completed a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy grant to produce multiple separated rare earth minerals from Pennsylvania coal mining waste material.  The CIX/CIC method used in both U.S. Government grants is the method being used to process rare earths and additional U.S. Government-listed Critical Minerals from the Round Top (TX) project, being developed by TMRC’s funding and development partner, USA Rare Earth, LLC.