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August 21, 2026 Cheyenne, Wyoming – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) has partnered with the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to apply high-performance computing to one of the hardest problems in bringing primary magnesium production back to the United States: understanding exactly what happens inside an industrial smelter that no…
August 5, 2026 Cheyenne, WY – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Boris Chubukov has been selected to join West Gate, the Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program administered by the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. West Gate embeds…
May 19, 2026 Cheyenne, WY – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation for a $10 million award under the Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, and Alternatives funding opportunity. Combined with $10 million in matching non-DOE funding, the project represents $20 million in…
May 18, 2026 – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) brought its progress on domestic magnesium production to two of the industry’s leading global stages this year, with CTO Dr. Boris Chubukov presenting at MagForum 2026 and CEO Dr. Aaron Palumbo presenting at the International Magnesium Association’s (IMA) 83rd Annual World Magnesium Conference. At MagForum 2026, IMFORMED’s annual gathering…
April 15, 2026 Cheyenne, WY – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) has broken ground on its commercial demonstration plant near Cheyenne, Wyoming, developed in collaboration with site partner Garrison Minerals. The facility marks BBT’s transition from pilot-scale validation to its first commercial-scale production footprint. The plant will house three modular smelters with a combined production capacity…
January 12, 2026 – Minago Development GP Inc. (Minago), has signed a licensing agreement granting it exclusive rights in Canada to Big Blue Technologies’ (BBT) advanced magnesium extraction process. BBT’s aluminothermic reduction (ATR) method is the most cost-effective and energy-efficient magnesium extraction technology available today. It delivers up to 98 percent lower carbon emissions than…
January 5, 2026 – Throughout the 2025 calendar year, the Big Blue Tech team operated North America’s only primary production smelter for magnesium metal production. This work was performed in collaboration with our site partner, Garrison Minerals, and graciously sponsored by select strategic partners, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the state of Wyoming. We…
December 15, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies is proud to announce that we have secured offtake agreements for our calcium aluminate co-product at a volume of 16,000 tons per year for at least three years. The calcium aluminate produced from BBT’s pilot system was tested and found to conform to, or exceed commercial standards for…
December 10, 2025 – The Big Blue Tech team attended HackSummit in New York this year! We even won the lottery for strategic exhibitor booth placement. HackSummit is world premier event for founders and investors to meet, present, and exhibit innovative solutions for infrastructure, climate, and food to facilitate cross-collaboration in support on industrial renaissance…
November 7, 2025 – Organized by Nomadic Ventures and hosted by Clean Economy Project, the Big Blue Tech team was honored to be included in the invite-only event. During the day-long session, BBT was ushered around DC to meet with congressional staffers, US DOE leadership, and other critical mineral political influencers. Special thanks to Batchimeg Ganbaatar,…
October 29, 2025 – Arising from a competitive application and selection process, Big Blue Technologies was selected to present at Colorado Cleantech’s flagship event: The Cleantech Mining Challenge. Colorado Cleantech is a membership-based organization uniting industry, academia, innovators, investors, and policymakers to advance energy technologies for a clean and resilient infrastructure. We are grateful to…
June 16, 2025 – The Wyoming Energy Authority (WEA) announced today that Governor Gordon had approved two separate projects to receive Energy Matching Funds (EMF). Relevant Gold Corporation has been awarded $226,533 for its versatile time domain electromagnetic (VTEM) survey project in Carbon County, and Big Blue Technologies (BBT) has been awarded $1.5 million to…
June 10, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies is pleased to have been featured on a poster presentation by collaborative researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory during the 2025 Concrete and Cement Workshop. NREL and BBT were selected for a sponsored project through the US Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI)…
May 30, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies was invited to pitch at the Creative Destruction Lab’s Alumni Showcase event in Toronto. BBT participated in the first year of CDL’s Mineral Stream for the 2023/2024 cohort. About CDL: Launched as an initiative for tech startups in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management,…
May 10, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies, a technology company scaling up a magnesium metal production process, is pleased to announce the completion of a sponsored senior capstone design project through the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Chemical Engineering department. This work supports technical and economic analyses to facilitate the commercial scale-up of a BBT’s…
March 23, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) was represented by Dr. Aaron Palumbo at the 154th annual meeting and exhibition of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society. Dr. Palumbo, as a participating member of the Magnesium Technology Committee officially transferred from the Vice Chair to Chair, taking the reins from Dr. Domonkos Tolnai. Abstracts…
Jan. 31, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies (BBT) is pleased to announce successful testing and production of commercial grades of magnesium metal ingot and calcium aluminate. BBT’s pilot facility, commissioned in the spring of 2024, is capable of processing magnesium-bearing ores into commercial products at a nameplate capacity scale of 25 tons per year. Magnesium…
Jan. 14, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies was invited to present alongside Boundless Impact Research & Analytics results from an ISO-compliant lifecycle analysis on a magnesium metal production process. Lifecycle analyses are critical for industrial processes to account for carbon emissions and other environmental factors using an internationally standardized evaluation and calculation process. The results…
Jan. 1, 2025 – Big Blue Technologies Inc. (BBT) and Baymag Inc. have executed a Letter of Understanding for an exclusive supply agreementof up to 4,000 tons of magnesium oxide (MgO). This partnership marks a significant milestone towards a North American magnesium metal supply infrastructure. As the United States actively looks to secure critical minerals…
August 3, 2024 – Big Blue Technologies (BBT), a leader in magnesium production technology, announced the official commencement of a $2M project sponsored by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vehicle Technology Office for the purpose of demonstrating sustainable and cost-competitive manufacture of automotive parts. The project is part of a wider $131M program…
June 1, 2024 – In collaboration with Boundless Impact Research and Analytics, with sponsorship from EnergyWerx and the US Department of Energy, Big Blue Technologies is pleased to announce the completion of an ISO-compliant lifecycle analysis on its magnesium metal production technology. When using system expansion methodology to include both magnesium metal and calcium aluminate…
July 15, 2024 – Big Blue Technologies is pleased to announce the successful demonstration of magnesium metal and calcium aluminate co-production. Calcium aluminate is a specialty cement and chemical agent for a variety of construction and industrial operations such as steel production and waster treatment. At BBT’s pilot facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming, initial tests resulted…
May 20, 2024 – Imformed’s annual magnesium supplier conference, MagForum, took place just south of Thessaloniki, Greece this year at the beautiful five-star Pomegranate Wellness Spa Hotel. The conference is well-attended by the world’s producers of magnesium minerals and compounds. These products are widely used in a variety of industries ranging from refractories, wastewater treatment,…
September 1, 2024 – Big Blue Technologies has secured an exploratory lease on a dolomite deposit on private land in the state of Wyoming. Dolomite, a mixture of magnesium and calcium carbonate, is one of the raw materials that can be used in BBT’s smelting technology for the production of magnesium metal. Calcium is a…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it would provide $5.2 million in funding to 13 projects through its High Performance Computer for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program to advance performance, efficiency, and vitality of the U.S. manufacturing sector and drive economy-wide decarbonization. These short-term, collaborative projects between industry members and DOE’s National Energy Labs will apply…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), in collaboration with the Offices of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), today announced 111 entities to receive support in advancing their clean energy technologies, valued at $9.8M. The in-kind commercialization support will be…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technology Office has selected Big Blue Technologies for a $2 million award under its FY-2023 Funding Opportunity Announcement. BBT will participate in Area of Interest 8 – Domestic Magnesium Production Research. With this funding, BBT aims to profile various material feedstock sources and demonstrate the full process chain from…
Big Blue Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce the closing of its Series Seed Financing round led by UHV Technologies with participation from Novelis, Inc., Ecosphere Ventures, and others including the founders and pre-seed investors. The investment round secures BBT’s ambitions to transition from pilot scale operation to a commercial demonstration plant.
Under the direction of Dr. Boris Chubukov, liquid capture of magnesium metal was successfully demonstrated for aluminothermic reduction (ATR). The pilot campaign emphasizes safe operation above all else with an end goal of fully continuous production in a ‘no-man-on-the-floor’ automated configuration. With this step completed and the onboarding two new teammates, BBT is excited to…
Is it commercially and environmentally viable to make magnesium metal from serpentine? This was the question posed and answered during the BBT & WHY-R’s joint presentation at the International Magnesium Association’s flagship event. (TL:DR – Yes it is!).
UPDATE: April 30, 2023: Three successful test runs produced a total of 50 lbs of Mg metal and over 100 lbs of magnesium aluminate spinel. ORIGINAL: March 21, 2023 Big Blue Technologies is pleased to announce the start-up operation of its innovative pilot-scale aluminothermic reduction (ATR) system for producing pure magnesium. Today represents the beginning…
The BBT team was represented at the TMS conference in San Diego this year. We were honored to be included within the Keynote Session in the Magnesium Technology division. The presentations included: Andrew Sherman of Terves, Inc. “Sustainable Domestic Manufacturing and Protecting IP in a Post-AIA World” Norbert Hort of Helmoltz-Zentron Hereon, “Metastable – Stable”…