RE:Found it, U of Ken. Product Rare from coal.Pretty certain that your post has no relationship with Ucore/IBC. If you follow the link within your post, you find this article:
UK Researchers First to Produce High Grade Rare Earths From Coal It contains this statement:
"The achievement was made possible using a patent pending process developed by Honaker and Wencai Zhang and with funding provided by a U.S. Department of Energy Cooperative Agreement."
Here is a list of citations for Wencai Zhang of U of KY, most of which also include Honaker.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zzlM2bQAAAAJ&hl=en I would imagine that it's possible that they will work with Ucore/IBC to utilize MRT after applying their process, though.