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Rare Earths Gaining Attention
You can’t see them but they are everywhere and crucial in so many ways.
by Ellsworth Dickson
Medallion Resources Ltd. [MDLTSXV; MLLOF-OTC; MRD-FSE], based in Vancouver, BC, reports that the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC) has successfully concluded the final major testwork program for Medallion’s rareearth element (REE) extraction process. Medallion is developing the process and business model to quickly get to REE production in North America by processing by-product monazite sand from North America, Australia and Africa.
“This program’s key work, conducted by the SRC, was to produce and analyze different waste streams from additional ‘crack and leach’ tests on our monazite sand feedstock,” said Kurt Forrester, PhD, Medallion’s metallurgist. “We are now engaging processors, waste management and transportation groups to determine disposal options and costs. This fits with our recently announced plans to commission trade-off studies investigating suitable North American sites for our proposed plant including transportation costs related to feedstock, re-agents and waste material.”
Medallion has received funding from the federal government through the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program in support of this program.
The company has responded to the US Department of Defense’s Request For Information (which includes Canada as a ‘domestic’ source) to put its monazite byproduct processing approach as a route to achieving near-term North American production of REEs.
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