Industrial Minerals


Greenland rare earth progress

01 February 2010

by Mark Watts

Greenland Minerals and Energy eyes 2015 start up for $2,310m. rare earth project

Keywords: Greenland Minerals, rare earths, Kvanefjeld, neodymium, cerium

Greenland Minerals and Energy Ltd (GMEL) expects to start production at its Kvanefjeld rare earths project in south-west Greenland by 2015 with an annual production equivalent to 43,729 tpa rare earth oxide (REO).

 

In its interim pre-feasibility report, the Australian company said the project has an estimated resource of 4.9m. tonnes REO and a 23-year...