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Raising rare earth recovery with yeast
While not quite as easy as whipping up a science experiment in the kitchen, a research group from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Engineering has developed an inexpensive and... — Updated 4/21/2023
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
Power of partnerships rare earth strategy
Instead of the economies-of-scale strategy typically used to get a viable rare earths project into production, Australia-based Vital Metals Ltd. has taken a power-of-partnerships approach to rapidly begin... — Updated 7/10/2022 Full story
American acquires Purdue rare earth tech
American Resources Corp. has acquired exclusive rights to potentially game-changing rare earth and critical elements separation and purification technologies from Hasler Ventures LLC and Purdue... — Updated 7/10/2022
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
Geomega ready to scale up REE recycling
Following the successful completion of four rounds of testing its rare earths recycling pilot plant, Geomega Resources Inc. is ready to begin scaling up the technology. "Having a fully operational pilot... — Updated 7/10/2022
Extracting REEs from Pennsylvania coal
Best known for its contribution to advancing the Round Top rare earths and critical minerals mine project, Texas Mineral Resources Corp. is now leading a group targeting the development of a plant capable... — Updated 7/10/2022
Saskatchewan REE separation plant coming
Canada's first commercial rare earth processing facility is expected to be operational in Saskatchewan by 2022. The government of the central Canadian province announced it is investing C$31 million in a... — Updated 7/10/2022
Lynas secures site for Aussie REE facility
Lynas Corporation Ltd. Aug. 21 announced the signing of a sublease with the City of Kalgoorlie Boulder for a 135-hectare industrial-zoned site for its planned Kalgoorlie rare earth processing facility in... — Updated 7/10/2022
Acid mine drainage may offer rare earths
Penn State scientists have developed a process that could transform acid mine drainage from an environmental liability that is costly to an asset that produces rare earths and other valuable minerals. "We... — Updated 7/10/2022
Scientists look to coal for REE solution
As security concerns mount over the nearly total reliance of the United States on foreign sources of rare earth elements, mostly from China, researchers in public and private laboratories across the countr... — Updated 7/2/2022
Saskatchewan rare earths plant on its way
A year after the Saskatchewan government announced that it is investing C$31 million in a rare earths processing facility in the Canadian province, construction of this important segment in Canada's... — Updated 9/7/2021 Full story
REE tech arises from the ashes of coal
Coal-fired power plants have been inadvertently creating deposits of rare earth elements while producing low-cost electricity for American consumers. Eyeing the untapped potential in the ashes of decades o... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story