Reimagining Carbon. Securing America’s Critical Mineral Future.
CRITICAL MINERALS • CARBON INNOVATION • DOMESTIC SUPPLY
About PMO Virginia
PMO Virginia, LLC is a private resource-development company advancing the recovery of metallurgical coal, rare earth elements, critical materials, and other valuable commodities from existing coal refuse and mine materials.
The company owns the fully permitted, 170.9-acre Moss No. 1/Red Onion property in Southwest Virginia. Backed by a comprehensive 604-page NI 43-101 technical report, the property contains approximately 25 million tons of raw coal refuse, including recoverable low-sulfur, 14% BTU metallurgical-grade coal.
Initial analyses have identified rare earth elements, lithium, cobalt, manganese, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zinc, zirconium, and other critical mineral commodities. Early laboratory testing achieved rare earth element recoveries exceeding 60%.
PMO Virginia’s work supports current U.S. Department of Energy and National Energy Technology Laboratory priorities focused on strengthening the domestic recovery of rare earth elements and critical materials from coal and coal-based resources. Through responsible resource development, the company seeks to strengthen domestic supply chains while creating renewed economic opportunity throughout Appalachia.
Critical Minerals
Critical Elements
Critical elements are elements integral to advanced energy production, transmission, and storage. Titanium, for example, is one mineral of high value which is abundant in the PMO reserve.
Titanium has such high value due to its remarkable strength, low weight, and resistance to corrosion. It is used in for aircrafts, in shipbuilding, it has geothermal applications, it is used in medical devices such as heart valves and artificial joints and much more!
Rare Earth Elements
Rare earth metals, a group of 17 chemical elements in the Earth's crust, are crucial to keeping our society running smoothly–and to transitioning to a clean-tech-driven economy. They're used in electric car motors, lithium ion batteries, computer hard drives, solar panels, and wind turbines.
Metallurgic Carbon
Metallurgical carbon or coking carbon is used in the process of creating coke necessary for iron and steel-making. Coke is a porous, hard black rock of concentrated carbon that is created by heating bituminous carbon without air to extremely high temperatures
