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Engineers microbial communities, combined with machine learning, to improve biomining recovery rates of copper and other critical minerals from low-grade ore and mine waste piles, increasing yield from existing mines instead of opening new ones.

Critical Minerals
Funding
$20.8M
Stage
Early (Series A)
HQ
Arvada, CO
Founded
2021

The Current Angle

Founder and CEO Liz Dennett has a PhD in astrobiology; the pitch is that every ton of copper recovered from an already-disturbed mine waste pile is a ton that doesn't have to be newly mined or imported, and Endolith has piloted with major operators including BHP and Rio Tinto.

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Last updated September 2026Sources: [1][2][3]