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Monazite is a light rare earth phosphate which is difficult to process when using conventional chemical processes. It is considered to be one of the most important commercial sources of thorium and lanthanides. Using conventional chemicals to process monazite have caused severe environmental damage as has been demonstrated in the Baotou region, China.
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STL previously had the rights to the thorium at Steenkampskraal. The acquisition of Rareco gives STL access to one of the world's highest-grade rare earth and thorium deposits with an average grade of 14.4% rare earths and 2.14% thorium. Trevor Blench, chairman of STL, said the mine is expected to begin production in about 30 months.
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Jul 01, 2014Vienna, Austria (PRWEB) July 01, 2014 -- A presentation on June 27th by James Kennedy of ThREE, a U.S.-based Rare Earth consulting firm, will profile the critical relationship between rare earth minerals and the element Thorium. Rare earth elements are critically important in virtually all high-tech industries, essential for the consumer, defense and Green-Technology sectors.
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The recovery of rare earths, niobium, and thorium from Bayan Obo's tailings has been investigated because the Bayan Obo ore is rich in rare earths and rich in niobium and thorium, but it is mined mainly as an iron ore and will be used up soon. By carbochlorination between 823 K (550 C) and 873 K (600 C) for 2 hours, 76 to 93 pct of rare earths were recovered from the tailings, which were
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Rare earths are used today in the production of many consumer goods such as computers, LCD screens and digital cameras as well as in "green specific emissions such as thorium, uranium, heavy metals, acids and fluorides. Furthermore, most rare earth deposits contain radioactive materials which impose the risk of radioactive
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Jul 01, 2014Vienna, Austria (PRWEB) July 01, 2014 -- A presentation on June 27th by James Kennedy of ThREE, a U.S.-based Rare Earth consulting firm, will profile the critical relationship between rare earth minerals and the element Thorium. Rare earth elements are critically important in virtually all high-tech industries, essential for the consumer, defense and Green-Technology sectors.
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STL previously had the rights to the thorium at Steenkampskraal. The acquisition of Rareco gives STL access to one of the world's highest-grade rare earth and thorium deposits with an average grade of 14.4% rare earths and 2.14% thorium. Trevor Blench, chairman of STL, said the mine is expected to begin production in about 24 months.
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Rare Earth Elements. Cerium is the most abundant of the rare earths. It is characterized chemically by having two valence states, the +3 cerous and +4 ceric states. The ceric state is the only non-trivalent rare earth ion stable in aqueous solutions, making it strongly acidic and moderately toxic, as well as a strong oxidizer.The cerous state closely resembles the other trivalent rare earths.
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Aug 01, 2021Rare earth ore often contains radioactive thorium, but in order to process, the metal requires an even deadlier cocktail of toxins. Processing a single ton produces 2,000 tons of toxic waste. In Baotou, there is now the world's largest mine tailings pond.
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Thorium precipitates out of solution as hydroxide and is removed. After that, the solution is treated with ammonium oxalate to convert rare earths to their insoluble oxalates. The oxalates are converted to oxides by annealing. The oxides are dissolved in nitric acid, but cerium oxide is insoluble in HNO 3 and hence precipitates out.
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May 25, 2021The nuclear energy company discovered it already had all the processes and permits in place to safely remove radioactive uranium and thorium from monazite to isolate rare earth elements. By sidestepping mining, the company saves billions of dollars and years of site development.
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May 08, 2011Toxic radioactive effects of thorium, uranium in rare earths. Environmental groups have long criticised rare earths mining for spewing toxic chemicals and radioactive thorium and uranium into the air, water and soil, which can cause cancer and birth defects among residents and animals.. China pays price for world's rare earths addiction
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Monazite is a light rare earth phosphate which is difficult to process when using conventional chemical processes. It is considered to be one of the most important commercial sources of thorium and lanthanides. Using conventional chemicals to process monazite have caused severe environmental damage as has been demonstrated in the Baotou region, China.
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Thorium is not a primary exploration target and resources are estimated in relation to uranium and rare earths resources. Monazite is extracted in India, Brazil, Vietnam and Malaysia, probably less than 10,000 t/yr, but without commercial rare earth recovery, thorium production is not economic at present. Chinese production is unknown.
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Jul 24, 2012Solve the energy AND rare earth crisis: Join the Thorium Bank. Kill two birds literally with one stone. Or call it a rock. Monazite provides thorium for power, and metals that are vital for the
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Thorium-rare earth element veins have moderately high sulfur content, but the sulfur is present chiefly as sulfate in barite. Sulfide mineral content of these vein deposits is very low, thus potential for AMD generation is low (Armbrustmacher et al., 1995). Carbonatites are important REE ores, and these igneous rocks contain greater than 50
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Proceedings of the "2nd Thorium Energy Alliance Conference, The Future Thorium Energy Economy, Google Campus, Mountain View, California, USA, March 29-30, 2010 N1 GLOBAL AND USA THORIUM AND RARE EARTH ELEMENTS RESOURCES . Magdi Ragheb* and Lefteri Tsoukalas** *Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering
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Thorium precipitates out of solution as hydroxide and is removed. After that, the solution is treated with ammonium oxalate to convert rare earths to their insoluble oxalates. The oxalates are converted to oxides by annealing. The oxides are dissolved in nitric acid, but cerium oxide is insoluble in HNO 3 and hence precipitates out.
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Aug 14, 2014Thorium lobby thunder intent on hijacking rare earths' coattails Investor Intel August 12, 2014 by Christopher Ecclestone Anyone in the Rare Earths space knows that Thorium frequently appears as an unwanted guest at the party. Explorers have worked on
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1. J Chromatogr. 1966 Mar;21(3):460-70. Reversed-phase paper chromatography of the rare earths, thorium and uranium using methylenebis(di-n-hexylphosphine oxide) as the stationary phase.
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Oct 08, 2009Based on the new USGS report, Thorium Energy, Inc. is confirming that it owns the mineral rights to one of the two largest resources and reserves of rare earth
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Thorium is not a primary exploration target and resources are estimated in relation to uranium and rare earths resources. Monazite is extracted in India, Brazil, Vietnam and Malaysia, probably less than 10,000 t/yr, but without commercial rare earth recovery, thorium production is not economic at present. Chinese production is unknown.
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Jul 24, 2012Solve the energy AND rare earth crisis: Join the Thorium Bank. Kill two birds literally with one stone. Or call it a rock. Monazite provides thorium for power, and metals that are vital for the
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contain less uranium and thorium then uranium mines, but will require special handling of the mine waste. Future development of these commodities will be challenging and more research is required to fully understand the REE potential in New Mexico. Introduction Overview Before 2010 most Americans never heard of rare earth elements
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Jul 08, 2018Laudal and colleagues have demonstrated they can generate a product with 60 to 90% (600,000 to 900,000 ppm) rare earths from lignite. They are
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The race to control rare earth production was on. In 1948, Klinger notes that India stopped exporting monazite—a mineral rich in rare earths and thorium, an atomic energy source. The United States tried to bargain with grain to relieve the country's famine, hoping to gain a Cold War ally. India refused, crushing US hopes that a deal would
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rare-earth elements. Thus, an inexpensive field test for the detection of rare-earth elements may be extremely important to the geologist and prospector, both for detecting and outlining rare-earth deposits and in screening large numbers of samples for more precise and expensive laboratory analyses.
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rare earth sulfur dioxide thorium calcium ore Prior art date 1960-02-19 Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.) Expired - Lifetime Application number
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Scandium (Sc, atomic number 21), yttrium (Y, atomic number 39) and thorium (Th, atomic number 90) are also generally included in the rare earth group because of their similar chemical properties. The rare earths were originally thought to be rare in crustal abundance but this is now recognised not to be the case and they have a similar crustal
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The geology of the project area is characterised by rhyolites containing both heavy and light REEs in a concentrated manner and at a relatively consistent grade, as well as pegmatites containing a host of critical minerals including lithium, uranium, and thorium. Heavy rare-earths are estimated to account for approximately 70% of the total REEs
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