Rare earths supply chains: current status, constraints and opportunities

By A. Golev, Margaretha Scott, Peter Erskine, Saleem H Ali, G. Ballantyne. 2014

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Subfields: Geochemistry and Petrology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Recycling and substitution of light rare earth elements, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, and praseodymium from end-of-life applications - A review (2019, background): “Separation of LREEs from these radioactive elements leads to health and environmental impacts and added processing costs (Golev et al., 2014).”
• Rare Earths and the Balance Problem (2015, background): “Due to the safety regulations associated with the handling of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), the thorium content of REE ores is a major issue for REE producers (Golev et al. 2014).”
• A Detailed Assessment of Global Rare Earth Element Resources: Opportunities and Challenges (2015, background): “…establishment of the Lynas Advance Materials Plant (LAMP) at Gebeng, Malaysia, a development that has caused widespread public protests about radiation safety, the environmental impact of the plant, and insufficient communication of relevant information to the local community (Golev et al., 2014).”
• Rare Earth Elements: Overview of Mining, Mineralogy, Uses, Sustainability and Environmental Impact (2014, background): “Environmental impact indicators relevant for rare earths were listed and some literature reported results were published [10].”
• Life-Cycle Assessment of the Production of Rare-Earth Elements for Energy Applications: A Review (2014, background): “The major types of REE ores are bastnasite, monazite, xenotime, and ion-adsorption clays (Golev et al., 2014; Liu and Bongaerts, 2014).”
• Effect of Chinese policies on rare earth supply chain resilience (2019, background): “(2016) made a supply forecast of China’s rare earth while some other papers focused on the supply outside China (Christmann, 2014; Machacek and Fold, 2014; Golev et al., 2014).”