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Louisiana welcomes Ucore rare earths plant
Offers $15 million incentive package for REE separation plant to spur job creation, new opportunities in Gulf Coast state. Louisiana welcomes Ucore Rare Metals Inc. to the Bayou State with an enhanced... — Updated 12/2/2023
Ottawa backs RapidSX rare earths plant
Ucore is awarded C$4.3 million to produce magnet REEs for EVs and other high-tech uses at its demo plant in Ontario. To support the commercialization of a technology poised to help break North America's... — Updated 11/29/2023
US Embassy staff tour Ucore's REE plant
The strategic importance of Ucore Rare Metal Inc.'s RapidSX rare earth elements separation technology was underscored by a recent tour of the company's commercial demonstration plant in Kingston, Ontario.... — Updated 8/29/2023
Ucore acquires new RapidSX demo REE feed
New US feedstock will further test Ucore's rare earth separation tech at Ont. demo plant. Furthering its goal to demonstrate that its RapidSX technology can separate the entire suite of rare earth... — Updated 7/4/2023
DOD invests in Ucore's rare earths tech
Pentagon invests $4M to test and boost readiness level of RapidSX separation tech. To help break America's dependence on China for the rare earth elements that go into modern military hardware, the U.S.... — Updated 6/20/2023
DOE eyes unconventional REE refinery
Looking to break America's reliance on China for rare earths and critical minerals, the U.S. Department of Energy is investing $140 million to develop a facility that extracts these minerals from... — Updated 6/8/2023 Full story
A rare earth supply chain master link
Summit spotlights Saskatoon as an emerging rare earths hub in North America Saskatoon, a small city in the heart of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, is emerging as the master link in a North... — Updated 4/16/2023 Full story
Ucore's rare earths plant takes shape
RapidSX team on pace to begin commissioning REE separation plant this year Despite snarled supply chains, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. says it remains on track to begin commissioning a plant in Canada that will... — Updated 4/16/2023 Full story
Ucore's Alaska 2023 is now Louisiana 2024
Plans to build first rare earths plant In the Gulf Coast state by 2024. With $10 million in economic incentives and quicker permitting of already established industrial sites on the Gulf of Mexico,... — Updated 10/18/2022 Full story
Making rare earths separation less rare
US invests heavily into developing domestic rare earth element processing plants Despite what their name suggests, rare earths are not all that scarce. An efficient and environmentally sound technology... — Updated 10/10/2022 Full story
Seven world transforming rare earths
Magnet rare earths transform motion to energy; and energy to motion and music While all 15 of the rare earths have special properties that have been called magical, alchemistical, and futuristic, seven of... — Updated 9/12/2022 Full story
Ucore accelerates RapidSX development
Following the positive results from an independent technical review received early this year, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has decided to expand the rare earths separation capacity of its RapidSX demonstration... — Updated 7/19/2022
Vital start of Canadian rare earths plant
To forge the second link in a wholly North American rare earths supply chain, Vital Metals Ltd. has begun feeding ore mined from its Nechalacho project in Northwest Territories into a dense media... — Updated 7/12/2022
Ucore advances RapidSX rare earths tech
In another step toward Ucore Rare Metals Inc.'s goal of producing the first separated rare earth elements at its planned Strategic Metals Complex in Alaska in about two years, a third party has carried out... — Updated 7/12/2022
Ucore secures Vital rare earths supply
On the heels of a deal to sell more rare earths carbonate to Norway-based REEtec, Vital Metals Ltd. has entered into a separate agreement to sell some of this midstream REE product produced in... — Updated 7/12/2022
Tests show RapidSX lives up to its name
As its name implies, Innovation Metals Corp.'s RapidSX rare earths separation technology is at least one order of magnitude faster at extracting REEs than the solvent extraction methods that it is... — Updated 7/12/2022
RapidSX rare earths separation progresses
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. anticipates that the RapidSX rare earths and critical metals separation technology being developed by its subsidiary, Innovation Metals Corp., will be ready for commercial adoption... — Updated 7/10/2022
Strategic metals firepower for Pentagon
The $740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 passed by Congress last week instructs the Pentagon to secure domestic and allied sources of strategic minerals and metals. "The... — Updated 7/10/2022
Ucore unveils Alaska2023 rare earths plan
Seeking to alleviate the United States' heavy reliance on China for its supply of the rare earth elements needed for a broad range of high-tech applications, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has rolled out a... — Updated 7/10/2022
RapidSX REE separation making headway
Innovation Metals Corp. said it is on pace to have a pilot plant ready to demonstrate RapidSX rare earth element separation technology by mid-2021. RapidSX, a proprietary technology developed by... — Updated 7/10/2022
Ucore acquires rapid REE separation tech
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has cut a deal to acquire full ownership of Innovation Metals Corp. – a private Canada-based company that has developed RapidSX technology for the separation and purification of... — Updated 7/10/2022
Ucore eyes new SX rare earth separation
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. is now considering a quicker and more efficient method of solvent extraction (SX) as the rare earth separation technology of choice for the Strategic Metals Complex (SMC) it is... — Updated 7/2/2022
Made in North America rare earths return
Roughly 38,000 metric tons of rare earth concentrates were produced from American soil during 2020, yet the United States remains 100% reliant on foreign countries for its supply of these 17 elements... — Updated 11/2/2021 Full story
Tin has been critical for 5,500 years
From the advancements of technology during the Bronze Age to the computers and telecommunication systems of today's Big Data Era, tin has been critical to human progress for at least 5,500 years. Sometime... — Updated 9/28/2021 Full story
COVID-19 underscores rare earth exposure
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. says the COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the need for a domestic supply of rare earth elements and other critical minerals and the company continues to make headway toward... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story