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To: TobagoJack who wrote (148721)	5/23/2019 12:48:32 PM
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So called "rare earths" are abundant and occur together in the same ores. Most college chemistry professors are fully qualified to calculate a series of extraction steps needed to separate one from another. I myself know enough chemistry that I could probably design most of these steps myself. A different process needs to be calculated for each ore type. In each simple purification process, you dissolve then precipitate one or more of the "rare earths" from the others. Based on new work by geologists, the most economic extraction in the US would bring prices to new lows by processing past of the 250 million tons of phosphate-gypsum rock extracted in Florida to supply phosphoric acid. - designnews.com Phosphate-gypsum ore lacks the toxic radioactive materials contained in the ore China is using to create an environmental catastrophe in Mongolia by dumping the ore into an immense outdoor lake of concentrated sulfuric acid. Rare earth concentrate can be very economically extracted from phosphate-gypsum ore with environmentally friendly and very inexpensive acetic acid (vinegar). . China's dictators, looking for profits from tending their herd of 2 billion Chinese cows, was more than willing to contaminate the ground water in a massive part of Mongolia using a primitive massive lake of sulfuric acid to process their radioactive ore, sickening a small percentage of their total herd of Chinese cows. A price China's leaders found more than acceptable. Previous withholding threats by these angry autocrats quickly led to the development of new less costly and safer processing techniques using safer ores - and the building of an enormous stockpile to deal with this. This is in process as you read this. "Rare earth" precipitates