Industrial Minerals


Avalon to build own processing plant for rare earths oxides

15 April 2011

by Siobhan Lismore

Plant to process RE Northern Territories output, will be among first outside China

Keywords: heavy rare earths, RE, Canada, USA, Kazatomprom, Sumitomo, Kazakhstan, Quebec, Avalon, Northwest Territories, Nechalacho

Canada’s Avalon Rare Metals said it will process the heavy rare earths oxides produced at its Nechalacho, Northwest Territories, project itself.

Both the Canadian project and the processing plant will be operational in 2016. This is slightly later than the initial start up date of H2 2015.

The plant, which will be among the first heavy rare earths processing plant outside of China, will not...