Tomás Villalón Jr., an MIT alumnus who grew up seeing the smog of Monterrey, Mexico, co-founded Phoenix Tailings in 2019 to develop a cleaner way to extract rare earth metals from mining waste. The company says its proprietary electrochemical process generates no toxic byproducts and can be carbon-free when powered by renewable energy.
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Tomás Villalón Jr.
Co-founder of Phoenix Tailings