Rainbow Rare Earths
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SECTOR
Production & Processing
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CATEGORY
Energy Metals
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Output
Rare Earth Metals
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LOCATION
South Africa and Burundi
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Rare earth metals production and value-add processing
Rainbow is developing a rare earths project in Phalaborwa, South Africa to recover rare earths from the gypsum waste dumps of historic phosphate operations to produce high-value NdPr oxide, with dysprosium and terbium.
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Tailings reprocessing will mean avoiding costly and carbon-intensive mining and crushing associated with primary orebodies
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Strong environmental benefits from re-processing tailings by remediating waste dumps and reclaiming water
