“Since early this year, the company has been testing, adjusting, and optimizing its 52-stage Demo Plant to meet its RapidSX commercialization and demonstration deployment objectives in Louisiana,” said Ucore vice president and chief operating officer Mike Schrider, in a news release on Thursday. “Ucore is very pleased to announce the completion of commissioning procedures with its third and final mixed REE chemical concentrate and the commencement of its US-Department of Defense demonstration program.”
That program is intended to establish a technological and economic comparison between conventional rare earths solvent extraction and RapidSX for separating heavy and light REE and to set up RapidSX for commercial deployment in North America, Shrider added.
During the final commissioning phase, more than one tonne of mixed rare earth feed was processed in less than one week of run-time while product specification targets were…
