SOUTH DAKOTA: South Dakota Mines Receives $3.1 Million DOE/ARPA-E Grant

South Dakota Mines has been awarded a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to lead a new research effort aimed at developing advanced technologies that could locate and map rare earth elements (REE) and critical minerals with greater speed and at a reduced cost.