RER gets go-ahead on demo plant

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has given formal notice that Rare Element Resources (RER) and General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) may enter into negotiations for a financial award for engineering, construction and operation of a rare earth demonstration plant. According to RER, this is the next step in its long-term plan to open a rare earth mine in the Bear Lodge Mountains.

The demo plant project will be pursued in conjunction with GA Europe’s Umwelt-und Ingenieurtechnik GmbH (UIT) and LNV, an Ardurra Group, Inc. company, and will make use of ore from the Bear Lodge rare...