We have more than 25 years of experience in recovering rare earth elements from scrap and end-of-life high tech products and industrial waste streams, using industry-standard techniques (ball milling, leaching, liquid-liquid extraction, and elemental analysis). Example projects include:

• Leching and purifying lutetium from scrap lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO).

• Separating and purifying samarium and gadolinium from scrap samarium-cobalt (SmCo) magnets.

• Recovering rare earths from abandoned mine drainage.

We are currently using patent-pending technology to modify traditional rare earth separations, making the processes more economical, sustainable, and efficient.

References

• "The Development of a Lutetium Recovery Plant" by Peter Michael Smith

• High-Purity Rare Earth Oxides Produced via Precipitation Stripping | Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B

• 10+ papers presented at National Meetings of the American Chemical Society