Environmental Impacts of Rare Earth Mining and Separation Based on Eudialyte: A New European Way

Neodymium and dysprosium are two rare earth elements (REEs), out of a group of 17 elements. Due to their unique properties, REEs gained increasing importance in many new technologies, like wind turbines, batteries, etc. However, the production of REEs requires high material and energy consumption an...

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Main Authors: Andrea Schreiber, Josefine Marx, Petra Zapp, Jürgen-Friedrich Hake, Daniel Voßenkaul, Bernd Friedrich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-10-01
Series:Resources
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/5/4/32