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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MDPI AG
2016-10-01
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/5/4/32 |