source:APTN NewsThe Northwest Territories resource sector has a new kid in town.Nechalacho Rare Earths Mine, located around 100 kilometers east of Yellowknife on Thor Lake is gearing up to enter production this spring.According to Cheetah Resources Corp., operators of the demonstration project and owners of deposits near the surface, Nechalacho will be the first Canadian producer of rare earth elements and the first project in the country where an Indigenous group is contracted for extracting minerals in its own territory.It's a pleasant surprise for Kyle Bayha, a heavy equipment operator ...
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source:QuartzIn 2010, the Japanese government had a rude wakeup call: Beijing had abruptly cut off all rare earth exports to Japan over a fishing trawler dispute. Tokyo was almost entirely dependent on China for the critical metals, and the embargo exposed this acute vulnerability.The silver lining to this incident, which sent global rare earth prices skyrocketing before they crashed down as the speculative bubble popped, is that it forced Japan to rethink its critical raw materials policy. A decade on, it has significantly reduced its dependance on China for rare earths, and continues to dive...
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From pollutant to resource: WVU scientists push rare earth element technologies closer to production source:EurekAlertWater researchers at West Virginia University hope to turn a pollutant - acid mine drainage - into a technological resource through the continuation of a $2.1 million contract from the National Energy Technology Laboratory.The West Virginia Water Research Institute, a program of the Energy Institute at WVU, earned the funding to explore a nationwide supply chain, based on acid mine drainage treatment, that would produce at least 400 tons of rare earth elements and critical...
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source:reNewsPensana has adopted a business plan to seek to establish, subject to funding, a world-class, independent and sustainable supply chain of the rare earth metals vital for electric vehicle, wind turbine and other strategic industries.This involves establishing the world’s first sustainable rare earth separation facility at the 'plug and play' Saltend Chemicals Park (SCP) in Humber, UK (pictured).This facility would have a target production of circa 12,500 annualised tonnes of rare earth oxides, including 4,500 tonnes of magnet metal rare earth oxides (NdPr), which would repre...
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