High-purity MREC production: Successfully produced a Mixed-Rare-Earth Carbonate (MREC) product that meets quality specifications for conventional solvent-extraction separation circuitsStrong magnetic rare-earth recoveries: High recoveries of magnetic rare earth elements NdPr and DyTb via hydrometallurgical leaching, with TREO extraction rates between 86-90%Uranium co-product recovery: Successful extraction of uranium with precipitation of uranium peroxide (a form of yellowcake)Direct ‘run-of-mine’ mineral-t ...

Would you say, Harvey, that the trade spat essentially is about critical minerals and it really is about supply chain warfare. Actually, there are two elements to this. And you are exactly right, because this is an issue that has been going on for probably 20 years.The Chinese, to their credit, have used a long term strategy. And many 15, 40 years ago, they dropped the price of rare earths substantially and made it easy for Western countries to get their supply and to be able to simply order and have it del ...

Back to the big news this morning. So President Trump has posted that the framework trade agreement with China is a done deal and that will include upfront shipments of rare earths. But exact details of the pact remain fairly sketchy.Now, the President also says he will be sending letters to other trading partners in the next couple of weeks setting unilateral tariff rates. So we're dealing with Japan, we're dealing with South Korea, we're dealing with a lot of them. We're dealing with about 15 countries.Bu ...

The US and China appear to be excited about the progress they're making on trade. So, let's discuss what actually went down during the negotiations. Both countries say they now have a framework that basically gets trade talks back to the agreement that they made in Geneva a month ago.And according to the Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, China will start granting rare earth export licenses for US companies immediately. But the Wall Street Journal reports those licenses are only going to last 6 months. So if ...

If we learn one thing during the president's recent negotiations with China, it's that we don't have the cards. We can disrupt their entire manufacturing economy. We can threaten them with a level of unemployment, specifically youth unemployment, that they didn't see coming.But in the end, we got rules because of one thing, our well-known dependence on China for rare earth minerals. They got them. We need them.Although it does make you wonder what the heck were we thinking when we started a trade war withou ...

If we've learned one thing during the president's recent negotiations with China, it's that we don't have the cards. We can disrupt their entire manufacturing economy. We can threaten them with a level of unemployment, specifically youth unemployment, that they didn't see coming.But in the end, we got rules because of one thing, our well-known dependence on China for rare earth minerals. They got them. We need them.Although, it does make you wonder what the heck were we thinking when we started a trade war ...

Joining us now, we have Axios chief economic correspondent Neil Irwin and NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans and Basil Michael is still with us. So I appreciate you all being here. Let's go ladies first with you, shall we.Okay, so Christine, um the cuts included in this bill, they're going to target not only SNAP, but Medicaid to what extent. Well, you're talking about 560ish billion dollars over a decade. And you look at the Congressional Budget Office scoring of this, and that's the o ...

Well, Brendan, you've been covering these negotiations closely over the past few months as tensions between the US and China have escalated and deescalated. How has that ticking clock played into these talks this week in London. Well, the focus for the past couple weeks for the Trump administration has really been on China.It's been almost exactly a month since they emerged from talks in Geneva, Switzerland. But what's happened in the meantime is China has shown the world how much leverage it has. China con ...

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Group 1 - The rare earth industry chain is crucially linked to recycling, which has become an important part of the industry due to the non-renewable nature of rare earth resources [1][3] - The upstream of the rare earth industry includes the refractory raw material manufacturing sector, which involves the mining, smelting, and processing of inorganic non-metallic mineral raw materials [1] - The downstream processing of rare earth metals and oxides leads to the production of various materials used in wind power generation, electric vehicles, energy-saving air conditioners, and smart manufacturing [1] Group 2 - China's rare earth mining and smelting are controlled by four major groups, limiting the number of participants in the upstream and midstream sectors [3] - Representative companies in the downstream sector include Zhongke Sanhuan, Lingyi Zhi Zao, and Antai Technology, while recycling is represented by Huahong Technology and Southern Rare Earth [3] - The regional distribution of rare earth companies shows a concentration in Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, and Zhejiang, with Jiangxi having the highest number of companies at 197, accounting for 16.4% of the national total [5][7] Group 3 - There are 17 major rare earth industrial parks in China, primarily located in Inner Mongolia, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Sichuan, and Ningxia, with Inner Mongolia having the highest concentration of 10 parks [9]