Iran Produces Seven Bars of Rare Earth Elements

Mehr News Agency reported that seven bars of rare earth elements including praseodymium oxide, neodymium oxide, cerium oxide, yttrium oxide, mischmetal, ferrotitanium and lanthanum oxide were unveiled at the National Research Center for Minerals in Iran’s Alborz Province on Sunday.
As quoted in the publication:

Director General of National Research Center for Minerals, Ali Mollataheri, also speaking at the ceremony, said the country’s advancement in the field of rare-earth elements is considered as a modern achievement in the efficient management of the main elements as well as the basic resources for hi-tech industries.
Noting Iran has bypassed limits of hi-tech knowledge by obtaining the technology to produce rare-earth elements, Mollataheri said “studies on these research projects started a year ago by a research and expert team at the National Research Center for Minerals.”

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