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Australia's Lynas to upgrade Malaysian rare earth refinery amid …

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Reuters | October 5, 2023 | 12:24 pm. With bulked up resource base, Wicheeda REE project ready to advance to prefeasiblity. The Vancouver-based miner aims to produce an …

Massive US Rare Earths Project Is Larger Than …

Approximately 1,015 to 1,268 million tonnes of rare earths mineralised rocks were identified as an exploration target for the Halleck Creek project area with an average Total Rare Earth Oxide ...

UTA scientists look to develop domestic sources for rare earth …

A multidisciplinary team of University of Texas at Arlington researchers led by Robin Macaluso, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Michael Bozlar, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the supply chain for rare …

Mining company says there's a big deposit of rare earth minerals …

People have known about this area for a long time, there was even previous rare earth mining there in the 60s. It's part of a bigger geologic formation that runs from central Idaho into southwest Montana, where there are known deposits of these rocks called carbonatites. And those carbonatites are known to hold rare earth elements

China discovers never-before-seen ore containing valuable rare earth

China discovers never-before-seen ore containing a highly valuable rare earth element. A new ore, dubbed niobobaotite, was discovered in Inner Mongolia's Bayan Obo deposit. China has discovered a ...

Rare earths: Australia's next big players

Also critical to net-zero, demand for rare earth elements (REE) doubled in the 15 years to 2021, reaching 125,000 tonnes per year. And future growth is tipped to be exponential. According to 2022 data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), it was estimated China produced approximately 168,000 tonnes of rare earth oxides …

The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world

Right now, minerals generate just $1 billion in Afghanistan per year, according to Khan. He estimates that 30% to 40% has been siphoned off by corruption, as well as by warlords and the Taliban ...

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The Guardian view on rare earths: mining them can't cost the Earth

R are earth elements may be in short supply but they are not rare. Even the rarest, thulium, is more than 100 times more common than gold. But only a few countries – such as the US, Australia ...

Bacteria could provide greener way of processing rare-earth …

The bacteria can be used to process rare-earth metals through a method called biosorption, which is considered safer and less taxing on the environment than current means of extraction ...

It's OK, USA Rare Earth plant coming soon

The rare earth magnets that help wind turbines transform a breeze into low-carbon electricity and then convert that energy to horsepower in the motors of electric vehicles will soon be made in Oklahoma. On June 9, USA Rare Earth LLC announced it bought a 309,0000-square-foot building in Stillwater, an Oklahoma city that boasts a …

Vietnam arrests rare earth industry officials, casting shadow over

Last month, Reuters reported details of the Southeast Asian nation's ambitious plans to boost its rare earth industry, raising annual output to 60,000 tons of rare earths oxides by the end of this ...

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Australia's Lynas to upgrade Malaysian rare earth refinery

Rare earths are 17 minerals used to make products such as electric or hybrid vehicles, weapons, flat-screen TVs, mobile phones, mercury-vapor lights and camera lenses.

Rare earths future hangs in the balance

Rare earths future hangs in the balance. Keeping up with EVs creates oversupply of non-magnet REEs Critical Minerals Alliances 2023 - September 12, 2023. Maintaining a rare earth balance while delivering magnet REEs to the clean energy and high-tech sectors is a growing issue. A growing imbalance in the supply and demand for …

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The government also set the royalty for niobium at 3% of the average sale price, and for rare earth elements at 1% of the average sale price of rare earth oxide. Reuters | October 11, 2023 | 7:43 am

What are rare earth elements, and why are they important?

The rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic table plus scandium and yttrium. Rare earth elements are an essential part of many high-tech devices. The U.S. Geological Survey news release "Going Critical" explains:

Miners eye 'critical' rare earths market amid doubts …

Key points: China dominates the rare earths market but buyers are looking to diversify amid supply chain doubts. A CSIRO report found there was a huge economic opportunity for Australia as the ...

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How science could make recycling rare earth …

Environment. Recycling rare earth elements is hard. Science is trying to make it easier. Recycling rare earth elements from existing high-tech products, like hard disk drives, might help...

Why are rare earth elements so rare? | Live Science

Rare earth elements have a number of useful properties that make them highly sought after by the tech and energy industries. This collection of 17 metals includes the 15 metallic elements found at ...

The World Wants Greenland's Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary

Oct. 1, 2021. NARSAQ, Greenland — This huge, remote and barely habited island is known for frozen landscapes, remote fjords and glaciers that heave giant sheets of ice into the sea. But ...

Mining precious rare-earth elements from coal fly ash …

The ionic liquid extracted more than 77% of the rare-earth elements from fresh material, and it extracted an even higher percentage (97%) from weathered ash that had spent years in a storage pond ...

Lynas wants to shake up the rare earths supply chain

Lynas is shaking up the supply chain for rare-earth metals. Sacks of rare earth concentrate at Mt. Weld waiting to be shipped to Malaysia. Image: Reuters/Melanie Burton. By. Mary Hui. Published ...

Researchers May Have Just Solved the Rare Earths …

Tanner Stening. October 17, 2022. Engineers at Northeastern have patented a process to accelerate the creation of a rare earth alternative—a mineral known as tetrataenite.

Rare Earth News: A New Push for Independence

Neodymium Oxide rose in price by 7.69%. Prices currently sit at $103,595.03 per metric ton. Lanthanum Oxide traded sideways, dropping slightly in price by 2.39%. Prices currently sit at $988.11 ...

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USA Rare Earth Works To Address Severe Shortage Of U.S. Minerals. August 9, 2023. USA Rare Earth Announces Strategic Partnership with Hatch. August 9, …

Offshore wind turbines need rare earth metals. Will there be

For Vestas, a leading offshore wind turbine manufacturer, gearboxes result in five to 10 times less rare earths used per megawatt of power produced, spokesperson Claes Cunliffe told Grist in an ...

Ultra-rare star collision in Milky Way could wipe out life on Earth

A potential, ultra-rare cataclysmic collision between two decaying stars in the Milky Way galaxy could strip the Earth of its protective ozone layer and induce a mass extinction of all life forms on the planet, a new study has suggested. Until now, astronomers have observed only a handful of such neutron star collision events known as kilonovas.. …