Metalplant’s Proposal Awarded $1.72m by DOE ARPA-E to Enhance Hyperaccumulators and Spur Nickel Phytomining in the USA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, September 19, 2024 / — Metalplant, a leading phytomining startup, and partner, Verinomics, a plant genetic editing firm, have been awarded $1.72 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its PHYTOMINES Exploratory Program. The project has a goal of developing sterile, higher-nickel yielding hyperaccumulator […]

“Mining flowers for nickel” – New Scientist Magzine Features Metalplant’s Nickel Hyperaccumulator Harvest

Metalplant’s nickel harvest was featured in the July 13-19, 2024 Print issue of New Scientist magazine: “On a recent afternoon in northern Albania, workers gathered armfuls of freshly cut shrubs covered in yellow flowers, leaving them to dry in the sun. This was no ordinary harvest, however. The farm is both a mine, growing plants […]