Availability of rare-earth, yttrium, and related thorium oxides - market economy countries. A minerals-availability appraisal. Information Vircular/1986

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6389254

Anstett, T F

The Bureau of Mines estimated the potential availability of rare-earth oxides (REO), including yttrium and thorium, which is also contained in the rare-earth bearing minerals monazite and bastnasite, from 38 properties in market-economy countries (MEC's). Only nine of the properties evaluated produce or would produce REO as the primary product; the others contain REO as a byproduct, chiefly from mineral-sands operations recovering rutile, ilmenite, and zircon. Nearly 77% (2,578,000 mt) of the total 3,355,000 mt of recoverable REO evaluated is from producing properties. At production capacities assumed for this evaluation, the amount of REO potentially available from producers ranges from an estimated 46,500 mt in 1986, to a peak of 50,900 mt in 1992, to 49,900 mt by the year 2000. Total MEC production in 1984 was estimated at 40,700 mt.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Mines, Denver, CO (USA). Minerals Availability Field Office
• OSTI ID: 6389254
• Report Number(s): PB-87-167250/XAB; BM-IC-9111
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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