MRC’s technology heralds a new future for coal and mineral processing plants. Follow along here for milestones and updates as our groundbreaking process makes news throughout the globe.
Minerals Refining Company has quietly signed the contract for its first commercial plant. This plant, to be located in Eastern Kentucky, is designed to extract up to 20 tons per hour of low sulfur, low ash and low moisture coal from the waste stream that is now being disposed of as waste or near-waste material. […]
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It is with great sorrow that we memorialize the tragic death of our friend, and a Director of Minerals Refining Company, Ben Hatfield, who passed on Sunday, May 22, 2016. I knew Ben Hatfield for almost 40 years, employing him after he graduated cum laude from Virginia Tech with a mining engineering degree, supported by […]
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Virginia Tech-created process for fine coal and minerals uses surface chemistry to reduce waste, improve plant economics.
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Many times, the technologies that will lead us into tomorrow don’t come from the mind of a startup entrepreneur. They come from the halls of academia. Minerals Refining Company wouldn’t exist were if not for the work of Dr. Roe-Hoan Yoon, the Chaired Professor and Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Advanced Separation Technologies […]
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