>>518741870
Cope. The US has developed a non-toxic, cheap and scalable technique for refining, sub-human. Just like the Ames process Chiner uses to refine and pollute the ever loving shit out of their farm lands, air, and drinking water. The US innovates, Chiner copies, and copies badly.

>A team of Ames Lab researchers at the Critical Materials Innovation Hub has developed a new, safer, scalable method for producing rare earth metals that utilizes the Ames Process. This new method, Rare Earth Metals from Alternative Fluoride Salt (REMAFS), uses an alternative fluoride salt in the production of rare earth metals, instead of the traditional rare earth salts that are made with harmful hydrofluoric acid (HF). Additionally, the method can be integrated earlier in the rare earth supply chain to reduce the number of steps required to convert mined materials to rare earth metals.

>“This process uses... sodium rare earth fluoride. The difference is that sodium rare earth fluoride can be prepared without hydrofluoric acid,” Nlebedim said. “It can be prepared at room temperature, and it is very easy to scale, so you can produce large quantities of it.”
https://www.ameslab.gov/news/researchers-develop-a-new-non-toxic-method-for-rare-earth-metal-processing
BIG OOF

>Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub researchers at Ames National Laboratory developed a new technology for processing rare earth metals (Rare Earth Metals from Alternative Fluoride Salt (REMAFS)) that has now been licensed to Principal Mineral of Dallas, Texas.
https://www.ameslab.gov/news/cmi-technology-for-rare-earth-processing-licensed-to-principal-mineral
Already being used.

Also:
>Scientists develop rare earth free magnet for use in industrial motors
https://www.ameslab.gov/news/scientists-develop-rare-earth-free-magnet-for-use-in-industrial-motors
UH-OH, sub-human!

>>64384987
>It's refining, which will never happen without accepting some degree of pollution, lower living standards, and telling a bunch of wholesome chungus small businesses and farmers "go fuck yourself, we're using eminent domain to get the land for the refinery".
They already are, and have developed a non-toxic, cheap and scalable technique for refining, samefag sub-human. Just like the Ames process Chiner uses to refine and pollute the ever loving shit out of their farm lands, air, and drinking water. The US innovates, Chiner copies, and copies badly.
>A team of Ames Lab researchers at the Critical Materials Innovation Hub has developed a new, safer, scalable method for producing rare earth metals that utilizes the Ames Process. This new method, Rare Earth Metals from Alternative Fluoride Salt (REMAFS), uses an alternative fluoride salt in the production of rare earth metals, instead of the traditional rare earth salts that are made with harmful hydrofluoric acid (HF). Additionally, the method can be integrated earlier in the rare earth supply chain to reduce the number of steps required to convert mined materials to rare earth metals.
>“This process uses... sodium rare earth fluoride. The difference is that sodium rare earth fluoride can be prepared without hydrofluoric acid,” Nlebedim said. “It can be prepared at room temperature, and it is very easy to scale, so you can produce large quantities of it.”
https://www.ameslab.gov/news/researchers-develop-a-new-non-toxic-method-for-rare-earth-metal-processing
BIG OOF
>Critical Materials Innovation (CMI) Hub researchers at Ames National Laboratory developed a new technology for processing rare earth metals (Rare Earth Metals from Alternative Fluoride Salt (REMAFS)) that has now been licensed to Principal Mineral of Dallas, Texas.
https://www.ameslab.gov/news/cmi-technology-for-rare-earth-processing-licensed-to-principal-mineral
Already being used.