Ucore Generates 99% Heavy REE Concentrate With Molecular Recognition

Ucore Rare Metals (TSXV:UCU,OTCQX:UURAF) has used molecular recognition technology (MRT) to produce a “near quantitative separation” of rare earth elements. The separation process results in a 99 percent pure rare earth concentrate.

As quoted in the press release:

The production of a high purity HREE Concentrate is the key and critical first step in the production, by separation, of individual high purity heavy rare earth salts. The resultant salts can be utilized to readily generate output products tailored to customer specifications. Those products include oxides, carbonates, nitrates and other salts of each of the individual rare earth elements (“REE’s”). A highly purified HREE Concentrate can be considered an end product to be sold to independent rare earth separation facilities, or can be used as input material for an in-house individual rare earth salt separation facility.

Ucore CEO, Jim McKenzie, said:

MRT is a disruptive technology in every positive sense. It’s a revolutionary alternative to the more costly, slower and environmentally invasive Solvent Extraction (SX) based methods of REE concentration and separation. What’s more, we’re excited to now be testing MRT as a platform for obtaining individual high purity rare earth oxides. This objective that has proven highly elusive in the REE processing community, outside of the more expensive and environmentally burdensome SX methodologies currently in use in China and beyond. Ucore will keep our shareholders posted on these further tests as they become available.

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