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isn't Spodumene a source of lithium instead of rare earths?
by Tagbert 3y ago
isn't Spodumene a source of lithium instead of rare earths?
- defrost 3y agoRight - brain fart - I was thinking of rare-metal pegmatites found at (say) Greenbushes W.Australia that gets mainly mined for Li for batteries, but additionally for Be, Cs, Ta. Wrong class of 'rare'. That said, Malaysia stands - Mt. Weld here in W.Australia refines there: https://lynasrareearths.com/ https://lynasrareearths.com/ The Lynas Mt Weld mine in Western Australia is acknowledged as one of the world’s premier rare earths deposits. Lynas also operates the world’s largest single rare earths processing plant in Malaysia where it produces high-quality separated rare earth materials for export to manufacturing markets in Asia, Europe and the United States. I'd have to check but IIRC the industry release re: Tesla also outlined including rare earth processing - which makes sense, pooling all the toxic by product processing to a single location to avoid multiple hellscapes.