Ashram’s biggest trumpIs not what Commerce could establish, its his simple flowsheet. The concentrat is well established to produce
and so is the REE separation from the concentrate because Ashram is made of monazite and bastnaesite.
REEs get produced from both since approximately 40 years.
The Ashram minerals make the SX plant part of a supply chaine no adventure (like Matamek, Arafura, Ucores
Boken), no try and error for ten years and $1B for nothing and economical useless. Its what the US needs
to fast track the establishment of a Northamerican REE supplychain. Mine, SX plant, magnet producer...JMHO
well known to separate
Flowsheet is simple with the flexibility to produce many different REE concentrates for
industry processors and manufacturers