A review of the beneficiation of rare earth element bearing minerals

By A. Jordens, Ying Cheng, K. Waters. 2013

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Subfields: Geochemistry and Petrology, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Life-Cycle Assessment of the Production of Rare-Earth Elements for Energy Applications: A Review (2014, background): “There is little or no beneficiation needed for ion-adsorption clays, given the way the REE minerals are presented in the ore (Jordens et al., 2013).”
• A critical review on solvent extraction of rare earths from aqueous solutions (2014, background): “There are a wide variety rare earth minerals known, but notably the mined minerals are bastnesite (La, Ce)FCO3, monazite, (Ce, La, Y, Th)PO4, and xenotime, YPO4 (Clark, 1984; Jordens et al., 2013).”
• A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges (2015, background): “At present, the most important economic REE-bearing minerals are bastnäsite ((Ce,La) (CO3)F), monazite ((Ce,La,Nd,Th)PO4), and xenotime (YPO4; Jordens et al., 2013), although the REE can substitute into the matrix of more than 200 individual minerals (Jones et al., 1996).”
• The use of hydrogen to separate and recycle neodymium–iron–boron-type magnets from electronic waste (2015, background): “…with regard to option (a), the mining, beneficiation and separation of rare earth elements is energy intensive, results in toxic by-products from acid leaching processes and the primary ores are nearly always mixed with radioactive elements such as thorium (Jordens et al., 2013; Zhu et al., 2015).”
• The Rare Earth Elements: Demand, Global Resources, and Challenges for Resourcing Future Generations (2018, background): “…create the individual metals required by the market, because of the wide range of possible ore minerals that each require a different beneficiation process (Jordens et al. 2013); and because of the additional steps required to separate out each of the REE (Xie et al. 2014; Machacek and Fold 2014).”
• Rare earths supply chains: current status, constraints and opportunities (2014, background): “Conventional physical separation methods such as gravity separation, magnetic separation, electrostatic separation and froth flotation are employed to concentrate rare earth bearing minerals (Jordens et al., 2013).”