(359c) Is Thorium a Non Starter in Rare Earth Minerals Recovery?
AIChE Annual Meeting
2015
2015 AIChE Annual Meeting Proceedings
Nuclear Engineering Division
Mixing Issues in Radiochemical and Nuclear Facilities
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 2:15pm to 2:50pm
The current state of Rare Earth production is slim to non in most of the free world! China seems to have cornered the market
of this very valuble group of minerals. One existing potential source of these minerals is in Sullivan, MO. There are several obsticals
to their recovery. One being radio active Thorium! I am looking for ways to separate the various minerals, the safe separation of
radio active components from the other Rare Earths being of prime importance!
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