RE:RE:RE:New Web Site up!!Pip don't be fooled by the BS from all these promotors of better, faster, cheaper, they have NO real time reference points, nor do they have full scale process from basic ore to finished product to customer specs, which isn't necessarily total purity.
While NdPr is basically just +99% the value added co-products is a critical component to CoP.
RSX/MRT is only a single stage of concentrate, beneficiate, C&L, seperate & calcinate, and you can get material tolled thru SX in Asia for $2.5/3kg.
The engineering of the total continuous flow plant is equally important to costs, CapEx & OpEx, and you are never going to optimise that with a dinky little pilot.
Witness Molycorp, they had 60yrs prior experience with the chemistry MtW ore yet they couldn't engineer a plant that could continuous process to spec.
Lynas have 7.5yrs process experience at scale, 6yrs on spec steady state, and solved a mass of issues in the process, particularly since 2016 they have recruited extensively across all disciplines, both internal & consultant positions, which included examining alt tech. I can tell you they are extremely confident they have the most cost effective tech at scale but you'll probably never see that in a PDF, just the production data.
So basically all this wonderful "new tech" is just saying it's better, at a single stage of the process, without any hard data whatsoever, but they can't even quantify exactly what they are better than!!!!
Best they attempt is references to dirty old Chinese manual plants from a decade ago, totally disengenious to pretend the Chinese have not also advanced hugely over that time, both in plant efficiency and enviro controls.
Anyone punting RE needs to dig deep and look for the substance, you won't need anything more than a toothpick Ucore's website.