Sentences with phrase «rare earth processing»

The lake of toxic waste at Baotou, China, which as been dumped by the rare earth processing plants in the background

Lynas director Ziggy Switkowski has defended the company's project management skills in the wake of delays to its rare earths processing facility in Malaysia.

Not exact matches

Lynas» market capitalisation swelled to over $ 4 billion during the 2011 rare earths bubble but a collapse in prices and problems with the company's processing plant saw its share price tank.

Amanda Lacaze is the CEO and Managing Director of Lynas Corporation, an ASX listed company with a portfolio of aligned assets to explore, develop, mine and process rare earth minerals.

When Lynas started down the path of building the largest rare - earths processing plant outside of China several years ago, the price of rare earths was at heady levels.

Geologists say newfound deposits in the embattled country could fulfill the world's desire for rare earth and critical minerals and end opium's local stranglehold in the process

The process employs a strong acid and a base to separate the rare earths — the so - called chlor — alkali solvent extraction method — but it still will not produce pure rare earths; rather it will yield oxides of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium and neodymium.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates it will take seven to 15 years to find new rare earth deposits, build the infrastructure to process them, and make them available to manufacturers.

By next year, the site hopes to produce 2.7 million kilograms of rare earth oxides a year — separating the elements from the ore using a liquid ion - exchange process.

«Rare earth magnet recycling is a grind — this new process takes a simpler approach.»

Nanocrystals selectively infused, or «doped», with rare - earth ions have attracted the attention of researchers, because of their low toxicity and ability to convert low - energy laser light into violet - colored luminescence emissions — a process known as photon upconversion.

Working there, the pair has created the novel method for processing drive units and electric motors to chemically separate rare earth elements — specifically neodymium, dysprosium, and praseodymium — from other materials used to make the devices.

Separating the two rare earth elements is a complicated process.

Cerium dioxide is an oxide of the rare earth element cerium and a by - product of the process of extraction of rare earth metals.

But the biggest hazard is an artificial «tailings» lake west of the city, where refineries that process the rare - earth minerals dump their waste.

Thorium is typically found in the same ore as rare - earth minerals and separated out during processing.

Molycorp's Smith believes his company can rewrite the way vital rare - earth minerals are mined and processed.

The chemistry of these minerals, or inclusions, provides a rare look at the processes that led to the formation of Earth's crust.

What costs will be incurred is a question that is currently difficult to answer: «The anticipated financial advantage in recycling the magnets depends not only on the recycling process, but also on the price development for rare earth elements,» Diehl says.

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, has created a new chemical process that makes use of the widely available rare - earth metal cerium to improve the manufacture of nylon.

«Japan is the second - largest consumer of rare - earth products after China, but it could catch up in a few years if the Japanese government gives proper backing,» says Yasushi Watanabe, an expert in mineral processing engineering at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan.

Included in this issue are articles on ore processing, rare earths, bioleaching and seafloor Mining.

During this process they looked for concentrations of a rare Earth metal called cerium in the zircons.

A new rare - earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid - free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements.

Unlike diamonds mass - produced in industrial mines, hot - forging is actually a small batch process making the gems very rare (far less than.01 % of the quantity of diamonds mined from the Earth.)

The world's demand for high - end rechargeable batteries is increasing, and the rare earth refinement process will also become less toxic.

The steel, copper, lithium, cobalt, rare - earth elements, fiberglass, and other raw materials to build all those turbines, batteries, and transmission lines would require massive quantities of earth removal, mining, processing, smelting, and manufacturing — much of it in developing countries under dangerous, inhuman conditions.

Whether it's research on the extraction of rare earth elements from acid mine drainage, biomass growth and conversion, improving renewable energy technology, or enhancing processes that enable us to better utilize our natural resources, we are proud to be a driving force behind the responsible development of our energy resources.

«There is nearly zero rare - earths mining, processing and research going on now in the US,»... Officials in the US, Japan and Europe are now debating whether to lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organisation over China's export quotas on rare earths.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

The answer lies in whether the University of Kentucky, Virginia Tech and West Virginia University, working with federal energy laboratories, a few coal companies and large manufacturers, can identify ways and locations to economically extract and process rare earth elements from the waste streams left over from mining coal throughout Appalachia and Western Kentucky.