New California Rare Earth Facility Ramping Up Production
New California Rare Earth Facility Ramping Up Production
After more than three years of design, engineering, construction, and commissioning, Molycorp’s new, state-of-the-art rare earth processing facility at Mountain Pass, California is fully operational and is now ramping up production of rare earth materials for customers around the globe.
This complex is one of the world’s most technologically advanced, energy efficient and environmentally progressive rare earth facilities. It sets a new standard for the production of rare earths with less impact on the environment.
Nice video it won’t convince me sorry
I saw an ad in the Las Vegas newspaper for a job in QA at that mine back in the 1970s. It was under other management then. I didn’t actually apply, but it would have been interesting: a two-week work cycle, ten days straight living in a trailer-barracks at the mine, then four days off in Las Vegas and repeat indefinitely. Primm and Jean were not even wide spots in the road in those days.
Sounds like the rich, full life….
Good! Judging from this video, the US has now produced sufficient own supplies of rare earth metals. China can consume more for her own ever increasing demand. Let’s cut off 100% export of these rare earth materials to America who no longer need them from China.
These are great paying jobs but I’m afraid California’s communist government will tax it out of existence. The People’s Republic of California can’t help to destroy everything they touch.
anyone else watching this for geography…
Quick question, if anyone is paying attention. Why isn’t Thorium being processed at this facility along with the other rare earth elements? Thorium is always found with rare earth elements and can be extracted in mass quantities. China is currently processing Thorium along with other REE’s and has publicly announced that it is building a Molten Salt Reactor with an estimated completion of 2020. In 5 years the Chinese will have developed a more efficient and safer way to produce electricity and also hold the patents on this tech. The US, as a global leader in technology, is in dire need of companies that will be able to produce materials for advanced tech, in order to compete. Molycorp can be one of these companies.
Thanks for the efforts Molycorp!
Just look at this, you get a feeling that manufacturing is not a child play.
On August 31, 2016, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware entered an order confirming the Plan Debtors’ Fourth Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization covering Molycorp, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (the “Plan”). Upon effectiveness of the Plan, all previously issued equity securities of Molycorp, Inc., including the securities listed in this Form 15, were cancelled and extinguished.
Just keep buying from Asia. They can do.
Yeas lets mine up the rest of the earth. It doesnt even matter since we are already living on a wasteland. Those mountains in the background of the video, they are leftovers and the valley below them has already been mined, only that they had bigger machines before. There were no rock on earth before. It was all living biological material. Mountains are petrified plants, mushrooms, bushes and other living biological organisms. So first all our vegetation was murdered, cut down. Then turned to stone with the "help" of artificially made natural disasters, then mined for everything precious. Left were scars on earth. Quarries and their left overs that were not transported away beyond Antarctica.
I bet you did number 2 on the chem project cause it had the least work huh? So did I…
I read an article written by Motley Fool that MolyCorp was taken over by a Canadian Firm called Centerra Gold. Since then the above rare earth processing plant was stopped in operation. Isn’t it right ?
unfortunately bankrupt
US should increase production of Neodymium ASAP so that Communist China could not blackmail America because of this trade war with Communist China..
América first