Posted on 06/14/2020 7:00:38 PM PDT by bitt
USA Rare Earth, the funding and development partner of the Round Top heavy rare earth project and Texas Mineral Resources announced Thursday that its rare earths pilot plant processing facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado has received the required permits and officially opened.
Once fully commissioned, the plant will be focused on group separation of rare earths into heavy (dysprosium, terbium), middle, and light (neodymium, praseodymium) rare earths (REE’s) and will be the first facility to separate the full range of rare earth elements in the US since 1999.
USA Rare Earth’s pilot plant is the second link in a 100% US-based rare earth oxide supply chain, drawing on feedstock from its Round Top deposit.
The final phase of the pilot work will be the further separation of high-purity individual REE compounds. The pilot plant will also be focused on the recovery of non-REEs focusing on lithium, uranium, beryllium, gallium, zirconium, hafnium, and aluminum, all of which are on the US Government Critical Minerals List.
Confirming the recovery of these critical non-REEs will support upgrading the measured and indicated resources to proven and probable reserves (with no in-fill drilling required), and completion of the Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) for the Round Top project, the company said.
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Ping!
MAGA
Thank you PDJT.
We need more but its a step in the right direction.
Now get the medical supply chain and anything the Defense Department uses - including components of parts - out of China.
Bttt
good, we need 6-7 more
many more since I had to memorize them!
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This is important news, but of course it’ll be drowned out with more racial strife from the media. Energy independence is the key component and will be always be the main component to this nation’s prosperity, and having the ability to process rare earth minerals ourselves is huge!
If I recall correctly, there are some interesting sites being checked out in Southeast Nebraska, of all places, as well
About time.
Praise eodymium!
Its a very tiny plant, unfortunately.
Will not make much of a dent in Chinese control.
It seems to have slipped under the radar, I have not found any organized opposition, which would be expected.
Wheres the element of surprise?
Yeah, I’ve been wondering the same thing for decades.
It’s a good start glad to hear it now let’s get some more going
Uh...
I don't think so.
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