Environmental impacts of rare earth production | MRS …
Rare earth elements (REEs) are important raw materials for green technologies. However, REE mining and production uses techniques that are often not environmentally sustainable. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a well-recognized method for evaluating the environmental impacts of products and technologies. This article provides …
Processing the ores of rare-earth elements | MRS Bulletin
Significant academic research and moderate commercial process innovation on rare-earth element (REE) processing have been underway for decades. The last several years have seen exponential growth in research due to growth in demand of REE that is threatened by supply risks and environmental obstacles. The REE industry appears to …
Repelling sharks? Rare earth elements can …
Magnetically sensitive sharks don't like samarium, neodymium, and praseodymium, according to a report by BBC on a company that is experimenting with rare earth elements to protect …
Mining Company Determined to Restore US Rare Earth …
MP Materials, which operates the largest rare earth element mines in the Western Hemisphere, had a big week. It was one of three companies on Nov. 17 to …
How science could make recycling rare earth elements easier
The scheme would provide valuable rare earth metals and help clean up coal mining's dirty legacy. Rare earths are often blended with other metals in touch screens and similar products, making ...
Rare-Earth Metals: What the Elements Are, How They're …
China controls a lion's share of the planet's rare-earth elements, which are hard to mine and used in everything from missile tech to smartphones.
The only five rare earth elements that matter
The others are heavy rare earth elements (HREEs), including europium, terbium, dysprosium and yttrium. The latter isn't really an REE, but it's associated with them. ... heavy equipment ...
Rare earth elements from waste | Science Advances
Rare earth elements (REEs) are critical materials in electronics and clean technologies. With the diminishing of easily accessible minerals for mining, the REE recovery from waste is an alternative...
How does the environmental impact of mining for clean energy metals
Mining, whether for fossil fuels or metals used in clean energy technologies, has serious environmental impacts, and it's hard to make apples-to-apples comparisons—except in terms of their impact on climate change, where clean energy mining is clearly better.
Material and Energy Requirement for Rare Earth Production …
The use of rare earth metals (REMs) for new applications in renewable and communication technologies has increased concern about future supply as well as environmental burdens associated with the extraction, use, and disposal (losses) of these metals. Although there are several reports describing and quantifying the production …
Can coal mines be tapped for rare earth elements?
Deposits of designated critical minerals needed to transition the world's energy systems away from fossil fuels may, ironically enough, be co-located with coal deposits that have been mined to ...
Towards sustainable rare-earth-element mining
Although urgently needed for the decarbonization of our economies, the mining of rare earth elements has a poor environmental record. The use of electrokinetics promises a more efficient ...
Rare earth elements: Where in the world are they?
Most rare earth elements find their uses as catalysts and magnets in traditional and low-carbon technologies.
Resilience for the Future: The UK's Critical Minerals Strategy
Less Common Metals, a UK-based rare earth magnet alloy manufacturer, was awarded funding by the ATF to conduct a feasibility study for a fully-integrated supply chain for rare earth permanent ...
SPECIAL REPORT: U.S. Begins Forging Rare Earth Supply Chain
The Biden administration considers them one of the strategic and critical materials and minerals for their use in several modern commercial and defense technologies — including smartphones, medical equipment and highly specialized …
How rare earth elements make modern technology possible …
Because of their unique chemistry, the rare earth elements can fine-tune light for many different purposes and generate powerful magnetic fields.
The Energy Transition Will Need More Rare Earth Elements.
In addition, because rare earth elements are often found near radioactive thorium and uranium, the waste left after rare earth elements are separated from the ore—tailings—contains chemicals, salts, and radioactive materials. Tailings are usually stored in ponds which can leak and contaminate water resources.
Five Steps for Solving the Rare-Earth Metals Shortage | BCG
Lithium, cobalt, and the so-called rare-earth elements (or rare earths), among other metals, are essential in the production of most green devices and equipment, including electric vehicles, windmills, and solar panels. These minerals will therefore be needed in huge volumes to meet aggressive global carbon-emissions targets by 2050.
Leading Supplier of Critical Materials | USA Rare Earth LLC
Our Texas mineral deposit hosts a wide range of critical heavy rare earth elements (REEs) and high-tech metals, including lithium, gallium, zirconium, hafnium, and beryllium – materials required for electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, chipsets and semiconductors, consumer electronics, medical equipment, and critical defense …
US fighter jets and missiles are in rare-earth firing line
China's grip on the global market for rare-earth metals gives it the ability to target American weaponry in its trade war with the U.S.
Portable Mining, Portable Exploration, Solutions | Thermo …
From a rapidly changing commodities market to financing and safety challenges, the pressure for Portable Mining and Exploration Solutions are essential.
Western miners seek premium pricing for rare earth metals …
Aclara is looking to mine heavy rare earth metal, such as dysprosium, and is in talks with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for a premium pricing as part of a long-term offtake deal.
A green and efficient technology to recover rare earth …
Here we report the design of an innovative REE mining technique, electrokinetic mining (EKM), which enables green, efficient and selective recovery of …
'Cobalt Red' describes the 'horror show' of mining the …
Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
Ionic wins licence in Uganda for rare earth elements mining
Australia-based Ionic Rare Earths has secured a large-scale mining licence from Uganda's DGSM, for the Makuutu heavy rare earth project.
Novel devices for the extraction and recovery of rare-earth metals
Efficient waste management practices can utilize waste as a resource for the recovery of valuable metals. Rare-earth metals have significant economic importance and are currently in high demand because of their strategic industrial applications. These metals are critical to the development of advanced devices. However, the supply of critical …
The Role of Permanent Magnets, Lighting Phosphors, and Nickel-Metal
Rare earth elements (REEs) are key ingredients in many advanced materials used in energy, military, transportation, and communication applications. However, the prevailing geopolitical dynamics and the rising demand for REEs have rendered the reliance on primary REE resources susceptible to future supply …
New SX process for rare earths
IMC's proprietary RapidSX solvent-extraction (SX) process was developed for the low-cost separation of rare-earth elements (REEs), nickel, cobalt and other technology metals. Pr-Nd oxide is in increasing demand for the production of high-performance permanent magnets, used in a wide variety of industrial, automotive, …
Rare Earth Elements: Overview of Mining, Mineralogy, Uses
Rare earths are used in the renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines, batteries, catalysts and electric cars. Current mining, processing and …
The raw-materials challenge: How the metals and mining …
The energy transition presents unique challenges for metals and mining companies, which will need to innovate and rebuild their growth agenda. As the world gears up for net zero, demand for raw materials is set to soar. ... Rare-earth metals' existing global reserves (in aggregate across different metals) are believed to be 120 million …