Ionic clay REE now in play in Australia
Australia’s critical metals production is now on a sharp rise, with a host of lithium, copper, nickel, rare earths, graphite and other projects in various stages of the development pipeline.
This includes rare earths where there has been a key development of late, with several new projects involving ionic clay-hosted rare earths showing promise. These are mainly in South Australia, and are a quite different proposition to extracting the elements from hard rock deposits.
These clay deposits are shallow, require negligible blasting, there is no crushing or milling involved, and no radioactive tailings to deal with.
Moreover, the right clays contain all the four key elements for magnets: neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium and terbium.
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