RE:Ucore MRTRadioRasheed, you got any information to support the claim that IX or SX won't be permitted anywhere in NA or is this just more "MRT is the only answer" BS. I would highly doubt it. Unless there is legislation in place stating such a company can use whatever method they choose so long as its EIA meets legislated and current environmental standards and mitigates risk appropriately. Jack lifton himself admonished the Dumbinator for claiming that SX was filthy with the following exerpts.
Jack Lifton to the Dumbinator: I do not know of complexity and “filth” of rare earth separation that I have seen anywhere. If I had to rank such operations the Chinese ones that I have seen are by far the most wasteful of reagents and solvents. The operations of Molycorp, Lynas, and Solvay are not only the three largest in the world but ARE REMARKABLY CLEAN. I ran a chemical processing plant, and I can tell you that spills of expensive reagents are dangerous and EXPENSIVE.....
Your comments about these processes are beyond ignorant; they are willful libel of scientists and engineers who follow the extremely tight health and safety rules and regulations of the United Kingdom, The European Union, The USA, and The Sultanate of Malaysia.