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Department of War announces more than $80 million investment in mining schools at historic roundtable with mining executives and mining schools
President Donald Trump’s Department of War announced today over $80 million in investments in multiple schools of mines and metallurgy,…
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Kentucky’s Honaker wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Rick Honaker, Ph.D., professor of mining engineering in the Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering, has been named winner of the 2025…
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University of Kentucky professors receive $2.1 million award to advance autonomous underground mining systems
Three professors from the University of Kentucky were awarded afour-year $2.19 million grant from the Alpha Foundation for the Improvement…
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High concentrations of rare earth elements found in American coal basins
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in…
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High-grade rare earths produced from coal by researchers at University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky researchers have produced nearly pure rare earth concentrates from Kentucky coal using an environmentally-conscious and cost-effective process,…
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