tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post4750681005715259548..comments2024-03-26T21:47:45.016+00:00Comments on MEI's Barry Wills: Rare Earths beneficiation paper is Minerals Engineering's most downloaded recent articleMEIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834780351452765156noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-58604317006402363562013-06-12T10:21:59.853+01:002013-06-12T10:21:59.853+01:00That's great to hear and I think there is a me...That's great to hear and I think there is a message in that trend - in the case of rare earths the ability to beneficiate and process the ore downstream is much more important than the size of the resource itself. What's the point in a 20,30,40 year mine life if beneficiation of the particular mineralisation is unknown? We're not dealing with a tried and tested technology such as in base metals.<br />Fortunately for our company we have a xenotime mineralisation that is proving to be relatively easy to beneficiate and rich in heavy rare earths as indicated in our latest public announcements. While we are optimising the beneficiation process our exploration team is busy building on the mineral inventory as we approach initial production in 2016. <br />Robert Sills, Northern Minerals, Australia<br />via Rare Earths Mining & Processing Group, LinkedIn<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6908362959739425575.post-19650620032417872342013-06-08T16:46:13.148+01:002013-06-08T16:46:13.148+01:00A great review. However the main challenge with ra...A great review. However the main challenge with rare earths is the demand for high purity single rare earth elements, so that processing of REE ores is not just about physical concentration but selectively recovering these elements from their host minerals. A review of the extractive metallurgy would be very publishable- anyone interested?MEIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834780351452765156noreply@blogger.com