USA Rare Earth, the funding and development partner of the Round Top heavy rare earth and critical minerals project in West Texas, on Thursday announced that it had opened a pilot plant processing facility in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
The plant would be focused, initially, on group separation of rare earths into heavy (dysprosium, terbium), middle, and light (neodymium, praseodymium) rare earths elements (REE).
The final phase of the pilot work would be the further separation of high-purity individual REE compounds.