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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source:Powder Bulk SolidsA joint venture between DADA Holdings and green technology firm Enervoxa, ElementUS, is committing $800 million to open a rare earth elements separation and extraction plant near the Noranda Alumina refinery in Gramercy, LA, according to a recent release issued by Louisiana Economic Development (LED).Owned by DADA Holdings company New Day Aluminum, the Noranda Alumina facility has a 35 million dry tn reserve of residual bauxite, a mineral contains 10 different rare earth elements.“Rare earth elements are in short supply and are vital to national defense, critical techn...
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source:ChemEngOnlineNeo Performance Materials (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and Energy Fuels Inc. (Lakewood, Colo.) announced a new rare-earth production initiative spanning European and North American critical material supply chains. The initiative will produce value-added rare earth products from natural monazite sands, a byproduct of heavy mineral sands mined in the southeastern United States. Energy Fuels will process the monazite sands into a mixed rare-earth carbonate (RE Carbonate) in Utah for use as feed material for Neo’s value-added separated rare earth production plant in Europe....
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