Energy Fuels produces REE concentrate at White Mesa
Uranium miner Energy Fuels on Tuesday announced a “major” milestone in US rare earth element (REE) production, with the company successfully producing REE concentrate at it White Mesa mill, near Blanding, Utah. The REE concentrate was produced using existing infrastructure and technologies at the Mill from a 1 t sample of monazite sands from a North American source. This, the company said, was the first REE concentrate produced from monazite sands at any significant quantity in North America in more than two decades.