The digital infrastructure for America's critical minerals and advanced materials
A one-stop electronic exchange for recyclers to secure verified critical mineral feedstock from compliant sellers
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Every Listing reviewed by RER
A person checks it before any Buyer sees it.
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Verified Buyers and Sellers
Each Organization is approved before it trades.
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Defense Commercialization Fellowship
Selected by the Defense Innovation Unit.
Moving away from foreign dependence to domestic resilience
Build a circular economy and reliable domestic supply of rare-earth elements
Rare Earth Rescue helps recyclers keep recovery lanes utilized by sourcing rare-earth bearing feedstock more reliably while helping scrappers uncover and realize the true value of their end-of-life equipment.
90+% of the global rare-earth supply chain is held by China
<1% of rare-earth demand is met by recycling today
Source: IEA, Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 (CC BY 4.0)
Solving the feedstock bottleneck for critical mineral recycling.
We manage procurement at scale through customized supplier and recycler workflows, allowing recyclers to focus on processing and recovery while we handle the sourcing, qualification, logistics, and market-making layer.
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Fragmented feedstock
Recycler demand is real, but origin points are scattered across multiple hidden nodes.
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Opaque material quality
Feedstock chemistry and recoverable content are poorly described, making pricing and plant planning harder than they should be.
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Hidden value pools
Scrappers and dismantlers are underpricing rare-earth-bearing equipment because specialist recycler demand is rarely visible at the point of sale.
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Strategic urgency
Domestic recovery matters more as electrification, robotics, electronics, and defense push critical mineral security higher on the industrial agenda.
Rare earths, and the critical minerals beside them.
End-of-life equipment rarely holds one element alone.
- Neodymium
- Praseodymium
- Dysprosium
- Terbium
- Samarium
- Gallium
- Nickel
- Palladium
- Silicon
- Copper
- Zinc
What we handle
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Verified counterparties
Every Buyer and Seller is approved by RER before they trade.
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Chain of custody
A record of who held the material, and when, from pickup to delivery.
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Market intelligence
Pricing context from RER's market data behind every Deal.
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Quality assessment
With RER-qualified Listings, Buyers can Bid accurately on the material.
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Logistics execution
Freight arranged by RER, from the Seller's site to the Buyer's plant.
Partners
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University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
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Department of War
Defense Innovation Unit
From our conversations
“We have a whole team of folks in our sourcing division that just call scrap yards all day long.”
“Currently we have suppliers coming to our door and we don't know what's in their products until we crack them open and begin processing them.”
“The first thing I ask our recycling partners is where they get their feedstock.”
Build your entry point in America's first critical minerals marketplace
Whether you are listing one load of end-of-life equipment or building a repeat procurement lane, Rare Earth Rescue gives the relationship structure, quality framing, and execution support that generic scrap channels miss.