Rainbow Rare Earths

Rainbow Rare Earths
  • SECTOR

    Production & Processing

  • CATEGORY

    Energy Metals

  • Output

    Rare Earth Metals

  • LOCATION

    South Africa and Burundi

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Rare earth metals production and value-add processing

Rainbow is developing a rare earths project in Phalaborwa, South Africa to recover rare earths from the gypsum waste dumps of historic phosphate operations to produce high-value NdPr oxide, with dysprosium and terbium.

  • Tailings reprocessing will mean avoiding costly and carbon-intensive mining and crushing associated with primary orebodies

  • Strong environmental benefits from re-processing tailings by remediating waste dumps and reclaiming water

Rainbow Rare Earths – a TechMet investment