A New Dawn: Commercialization of CO2 Capture
US Strategic Minerals Exploration LLC (“USSME”) is proud to announce that we have met our goals as described on our website and developed solutions to the global crisis of carbon dioxide affecting the environment. USSME has the ability to sequester carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate. Utilizing this technology in January of 2024 USSME filed a process using LiquidOre® Brine as a reagent for abatement of oxidation products from the combustion of methane. We believe that our process of sequestering carbon dioxide and those useful products that result from our processing approach, such as high purity calcium carbonate, as well as metals as magnesium oxide, or those metals such as rare earths may also be a result from our processing approach. We are pleased with what we have done, and it is our intent to provide this technology in the field to address methane flaring in 2025. Our reactor will be built as a portable and expandable unit. Which can be delivered to a field application where mitigation of the oxidation products of methane flaring is addressed. Then USSME’s field reactor may be mobilized to another location when it is released from the current application. Such a designed reactor would have significant applicability not only here in the US, but as well as internationally. Our approach would contribute to infrastructure development in a positive manner here in the US as well as that of third world countries, while at the same time provide a method for the development of natural resources while being compliant with climate goals as set by international trade organizations. This is accomplished by addressing the oxidation products from their development of natural resource processing. USSME carbon capture technology can provide needed infrastructure products from the processing of the oxidation products from the development of resources.
USSME Technology is supported by its approved trademark and issued patents and filings which, in the presence of a catalyst, will sequester carbon dioxide as an alkaline earth carbonate (“PCC”). Our trademark, LiquidOre® Brine, a reagent for carbon sequestration, was issued by the United States of America Patent and Trademark Office at Reg. No 7,157,637, registered September 5, 2023.
The trademark LiquidOre® The Class 1 uses that are granted to USSME an exclusive and broad range of applications involving brines. Applications include:
1. LiquidOre® Brine for the use in carbon sequestration.
2. LiquidOre® Brine for use in industrial processes.
3. LiquidOre® Brine for use in carbon sequestration in carbon fueled power plants.
4. LiquidOre® Brine for purified brine composition for de-icing, dust control, or road base stabilization.
5. LiquidOre® Brine for use in precipitating minerals and metals.
USSME will provide an analysis of the output of the precipitated PCC which supports our processing technology to any third party who is willing to support our ongoing work or individuals who have signed a confidentiality agreement with USSME.
Our Patented Process and Technology
The processing and extraction of minerals from LiquidOre® Brine does not employ conventional hard rock mining techniques used to find and extract minerals from ore bodies. LiquidOre® Brine has minerals already dissolved in solution, so processing and extraction is much simpler and does not require strip mining and the toxic preparation of typical hard rock mining operations. The minerals in LiquidOre® Brine are in solution as a better described in our Patents.
Our products and technology can be licensed and used by industry as illustrated below.
We use our patented technologies and processes and our founding partners’ passion for innovation to facilitate the creation of commercially useful and valuable products. Our goal is to provide economical, sustainable, and socially responsible solutions for many extractive and manufacturing industries.
At the heart of our business are naturally occurring, mineral-rich reservoirs of supersaturated brines (LiquidOre® Brine). We use LiquidOre® Brine as a key reagent along with captured carbon dioxide in our processing technology to precipitate Calcium Carbonate, Magnesium Carbonate and a range of rare earth minerals that are considered critical and strategic to the US economy.
Our business focus on Carbon Footprint Reduction, Sustainable Roads, and Rare and Strategic Minerals provides these key products and services.
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Carbon Footprint Reduction Technologies
US Strategic Minerals Exploration provides technology which assists high carbon-emitting industries in their efforts toward reducing their carbon footprint. We are continuing to develop Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) technologies that can be delivered to industrial and power generation sites where high carbon emissions occur. At these sites, captured Carbon Dioxide is permanently sequestered by a mineral carbonation process using LiquidOre® Brine rich in Calcium and Magnesium Salts. The end product is a proprietary industrial aggregate product we call THE GREENMILE™ Roadbase.
Our unique process supports carbon-emitting industries by reducing the human-caused carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere. This extends the viability of several core industries and allows new infrastructure projects — that are environmentally sensitive — to commence operations.
Installation and operation of our portable and scalable CCUS technology provides participating industries access to Section 45Q tax credits in many instances. In the future, it could provide corporations a key source of Carbon Capture Credits, should a system of trading captured Carbon become accepted by the global economy.
Sustainable Roads
Well-built and maintained roads are essential to the US economy. Each year, our Federal, State and Local transportation agencies spend hundreds of billions of tax dollars building, expanding, and maintaining roads and highway systems.
Sustainable Road Construction Products
Calcium Carbonate is a significant mineral used in the construction of roads throughout the world. Calcium Carbonate, commonly used as a key component of the aggregate mixture for road construction, is primarily sourced from mined and crushed limestone. Mining limestone can result in groundwater contamination, land subsidence, habitat destruction and dust pollution.
Our precipitated Calcium Carbonate (or limestone) is a “green” product that is produced using captured Carbon Dioxide and LiquidOre® Brine. Because it uses our CCUS technology and is produced in an environmentally conscious manner, we have trademarked this particular process THE GREENMILE™ Roadbase. It represents a sustainable new aggregate source for road construction and other projects that utilize crushed and sorted material from quarries and mining operations worldwide.
Sustainable Road Maintenance
A significant portion of our LiquidOre® Brine comes to surface to the same specification as commercially produced de-icer, anti-icer and liquid dust control products. These products add to our Sustainable Roads business line.
Road and Pavement De-icing Product
LiquidOre® Brine sourced from certain subsurface reservoirs is the ideal product to apply before or after a winter-weather event that is predicted to impair travel. It is a naturally-occurring, concentrated Calcium Chloride liquid that inhibits bonding of snow and ice to surfaces like highways and parking lots. When properly applied, LiquidOre® Brine rapidly melts snow and ice to produce and maintain an ice-free surface.
It is more versatile than the commonly used Magnesium Chloride products due to its lower freezing point (-32 deg F) and use as a blending agent for less expensive products
Dust Control Product
LiquidOre® Brine sourced from certain subsurface reservoirs can be used — without significant processing — for controlling dust on roadways, in mining and quarrying sites, and during road construction. It can be used to stabilize and compact Roadbase materials during the construction phase of many critical road and infrastructure projects. LiquidOre® Brine is superior to water and many other dust control products because the high concentration of Calcium Chloride in our product has a higher affinity for humidity in the atmosphere, thus reducing the need for frequent product reapplication.
Rare and Strategic Minerals Exploration and Production
Our modern life has resulted in an ever-increasing need for a variety of rare minerals. These minerals are necessary for computers, smartphones, medical equipment, military defense systems, and even in the production of “clean” energy. Unfortunately, the United States has very limited or environmentally sensitive deposits of several key rare minerals. As such, many minerals including Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are imported from overseas in various forms.
US Strategic Minerals Exploration is committed to reducing the reliance by the United States on overseas imports of these minerals. We have developed patented technologies that allow rare and critical minerals to be sourced and extracted from subsurface-sourced brines and industrial-waste sites in the United States and North America.
