Source:The West AustralianAspiring rare earth metals producer Greenland Minerals has outlined some major wins at its massive Kvanefjeld project in southern Greenland this week, including an impressive 8% increase in rare earth recoveries to 94%, compared to the 2016 Feasibility Study, or “FS”, metrics.The metallurgical test work was undertaken by leading rare earth company and major Greenland shareholder, Shenghe Resources.Early last year, the company revealed the development of an enhanced leaching method to simplify the refinery circuit for the complex project, that has since led to a substa...
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Source:Around 620 light-years away from Earth lies KELT-9b - by far the hottest planet we have ever found. It's so hot that vaporised iron and titanium are scattered throughout its atmosphere, as researchers discovered last year. But it turns out it gets even more intense.Exoplanet scientists have now found a bunch of other vaporised metals swirling around KELT-9b - sodium, magnesium, chromium, and rare-Earth metals scandium and yttrium.It's the first time chromium, scandium, and yttrium have been robustly detected in an exoplanet's atmosphere - a coup for the scientists at the Uni...
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Source:SafeHaven.comOn Friday the United States made good on its threat to ratchet up the trade war against China, after the two parties failed, after weeks of negotiations, to reach a deal.The Trump administration hiked tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports to 25% from 10%, adding to the $50 billion in goods already being taxed at that level. The tariff hikes went into effect at midnight on Thursday.The negotiations appeared to be going well up until a couple of days ago, when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer accused the Chinese of renegi...
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Source:Geomega Resources (TSXV: GMA, OTC PINK:GOMRF) has selected Seneca, a Montreal based engineering consulting firm specializing in industrial process engineering, to complete the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study for the rare earth recycling demonstration plant with the focus on the permanent magnet industry.As quoted from the press release:The FEED study will produce an externally validated construction and operating cost estimates, project completion schedule, process flow and control diagrams and environmental impact review and process safety measures and provisions that are req...
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