source:Creamer Media’s Mining WeeklyLondon-listed Rainbow Rare Earths has appointed Australian State-owned mineral sciences and services company ANSTO Minerals to advance the flow sheet process optimisation at the Phalaborwa rare earths project, in South Africa.The completion of ANSTO's project, after which Rainbow will publish a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) or scoping study, is expected to place the company in a strong position to fast-track the project at Phalaborwa, says Rainbow Rare Earths CEO George Bennett.ANSTO has been engaged to perform scouting leach tests on drill sampl...
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source:MINING.comGeologists and materials scientists at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg discovered a new way of finding previously unknown deposits of rare earths, or rare earth metals, worldwide.In a paper published in the journal Geology, the researchers explain that contrary to what their name might suggest, sources of rare earth elements or rare earth metals are distributed fairly equally all over the world. However, there are only very few sources that are economically viable and they propose using a new indicator to identify such deposits.When inspecting rock samples from the Vergen...
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Medallion Resources making great strides with proprietary process to extract rare earths from mineral sand monazitesource:Proactive Investor USA&CanadaThe Vancouver-based company is pioneering a process that extracts what is known as magnet metals, or more specifically neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr)Medallion's technology will help meet increasing critical raw material demandsMonazite contains up to 60% rare earth minerals and is consistently enriched in neodymium and praseodymiumIt is widely available as a by-product from operating North American, Australian and African minesMedalli...
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source:Mining.comEnergy Fuels (NYSE: UUUU; TSX: EFR) reported that the first shipments of natural monazite ore have arrived at the company’s White Mesa Mill in Blanding, Utah.In the coming weeks, the company expects to gradually ramp-up production of an intermediate rare earth element (REE) product, called a “mixed REE carbonate.” This product will then advance to REE separation, which is the next stage in the REE value chain.Energy Fuels also expects to recover the uranium in the ore, which will be used as fuel for the generation of clean, carbon-free nuclear energy.The company expects to sel...
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