Solcoa announced $75 million in funding to build Solcoa One, a 500-tonne rare earth metallization plant in Nevada. The company claims its process is faster, cheaper, and cleaner than alternatives and says it is ready to scale. The author draws a parallel to Charles Martin Hall, whose 1886 aluminum process cut prices 98% and led to Alcoa, and notes titanium in the 1940s was the last new metalmaking process America scaled. Backers tagged include Bain Capital Ventures, Felicis, Long Journey VC, JPMorgan, Alexis Ohanian's Seven Seven Six, and others.

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