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Feds eye New England universities in push to reshore rare earth metal refining

States Newsroom · October 30, 2026

U.S. Department of Energy officials came to the New Hampshire Seacoast on Friday to announce plans to distribute $70 million to universities across the U.S., a move they said was intended to boost training of mining engineers and other professionals of the domestic “critical minerals” workforce. But no university in…

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Feds eye New England universities in push to reshore rare earth metal refining

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