RE:Bokan REE's not in monaziteAbsolute garbage Chris, not only do you not have a clue, you simply make stuff up as you go along, and you don't even care that you are feeding the already deluded & delusional here a pile of tripe.
Bokan contains as much Th & U as it does Dy & Tb, go check Table 13.3 (continued over 2 pages)
https://ucore.com/documents/PEA.pdf
Tb & Dy > 0.073%
Th & U > 0.070%
If you even bothered to read the PEA, let alone understand it, you'd see the mgt plan involves the expensive process of transporting the radioactive material BACK UG as a paste and back filling the skinny little veins.
IF you had even a rudimentary knowledge of the process you might understand what a nightmare the complex geology of the numerous skinny little veins are going to present in the primary extraction process, most particularly given the minute grade where recoveries are vital.
Go take a look at how NTU are progressing after 12 months working on similar low grade but with a relatively simple xenotime host that the Chinese have been processing for decades. Ucore's challenges will be far, far more complex:
"Bokan Mountain has few characteristics in common with well-studied rare earth deposits and mines" > read NIGHTMARE.
BTW, xenotime is also the host for Lynas Duncan HRE, readily identifiable and a quantity stockpiled from the last mining campaign. As Blueline JV is established to steady state this material can easily be added to the concentrate feed to raise the values of Tb & Dy in the SEG/HRE output from LAMP and Blueline output 3/4x, notonly more than sufficient to satisfy tiny US demand & ROW but probably some left over for China as well.