Alcoa Advances Talks for Arkansas Project to Recover Critical Minerals from Bauxite Residue

Alcoa Advances Talks for Arkansas Project to Recover Critical Minerals from Bauxite Residue

Alcoa has been selected to negotiate a potential federal award for a project that would explore recovering critical minerals from material left behind by Arkansas' historic bauxite industry. The U.S. Department of Energy announced August 18th that Alcoa was among nine projects selected for negotiations under a $162 million federal initiative aimed at expanding domestic production and processing of critical minerals. Alcoa has since confirmed tha…