Northern Minerals sells pilot product

Rare earths developer Northern Minerals has entered into a sales agreement with China’s Lianyugang Zeyu New Materials Sales Co (JFMAG) for all planned production from the Browns Range pilot plant, in Western Australia. The proposed pilot plant is a tenth of the scale of the full operation and has a 60 000 t/y crushing beneficiation circuit and a 3 200 t/y hydrometallurgical plant, which will produce 590 t of total rare earth oxide in a mixed rare earth carbonate.