# Alta Resource Technologies

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/alta-resource-technologies/  
**Website:** https://altatech.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Alta Resource Technologies is a Colorado-based deep-tech company reinventing how critical minerals are sourced. It uses advanced biochemistry — customizable, engineered proteins licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and co-developed with researchers at Pennsylvania State University — to selectively separate high-purity rare earth elements and other strategic metals from low-grade ores, mining tailings, and electronic-waste streams such as end-of-life hard disk drives. The protein-based platform binds target elements out of complex, low-concentration solutions with high selectivity while dramatically reducing the environmental footprint of conventional mining and refining, strengthening U.S. and allied critical-mineral supply chains. Alta emerged from stealth in January 2025 and expanded its Series Seed to $10M, backed by DCVC, Voyager Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Orion Industrial Ventures. As a materials-science and biochemistry company, Alta does not publish a public developer API, SDKs, or a developer portal; this API Evangelist profile carries its identity and website properties only.

## Kin Score — 10.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Alta Resource Technologies Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Critical Minerals, Rare Earth Elements, Biotechnology, Mining, Materials Science, Clean Technology, Recycling, Supply Chain

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/alta-resource-technologies/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.