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Ucore's Rare Earth Separation Commercial Demonstration Plant On-Track for Q4-2022 Commissioning
Ucore's rare earth separation commercial demonstration plant is designed to process: Tens...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Ucore's Rare Earth Separation Commercial Demonstration Plant On-Track for Q4-2022 CommissioningUcore's rare earth separation commercial demonstration plant is designed to process:Tens of tonnes of mixed rare earth concentrates on a per annum basis.Many feedstock sources, including heavy and light rare earth element feedstocks planned for the full-scale Strategic Metals Complexes (SMC).All RapidSX™ splits required to produce individual praseodymium, neodymium, terbium, and dysprosium.Planned commissioning in Q4-2022, followed by product qualification trials for prospective North American metal/alloy makers and original equipment manufacturers seeking diversified and sustainable metallic supply chains.The full-scale SMC engineering entity, Mech-Chem Associates, Inc., is now fully integrated into all demonstration plant activities.Halifax, Nova Scotia--(Newsfile Corp. - September 15, 2022) - Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSXV: UCU) (OTCQX: UURAF) (\"Ucore\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update on the Innovation Metals Corp.[i] (\"IMC\") RapidSX™ rare earth element (\"REE\") separation technology platform and the Company's commercial Strategic Metals Complex (\"SMC\") technology deployment process (the \"Program\"). The work is taking place at the companies' laboratory partner's (Kingston Process Metallurgy Inc. (\"KPM\")) facility in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.The Program was enhanced after Ucore received the independent evaluation of the RapidSX™ technology platform leading to the subsequent July 12, 2022, announcement of the nearly 3X increase in scope of the RapidSX™ REE demonstration-scale plant (\"Demo Plant\"). Since then, the Ucore, IMC, KPM, and Mech-Chem Associates, Inc.[ii] (\"Mech-Chem\") commercialization team (the \"Team\") has made significant strides in the procurement and construction process for the Demo Plant. The final engineered layout of the Demo Plant takes up nearly all of the 5,000 square foot Commercialization and Demonstration Facility (\"CDF\") at KPM. And the concept of building a plant within an existing building is the go-forward transition template for the engineering process that the Team will replicate to create the first full-scale SMC, once the brownfield site[iii] selection process is finalized. This initial SMC is scheduled to produce 2,000 tonnes of total rar...