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Canadian Rare Earth Sector – Opportunities &
CREEN's Leadership Contribution
Ian M. London P. Eng, MBA
Chair, CREEN; Chair, ISO/TC298 REE Canadian Mirror Committee
Brazil-Canada Seminar/Roundtable on Rare Earths
March 7th, 2017
CREEN Objectives
CREEN is an industry-led
multi-stakeholder
network, that promotes
and provides
collaborative solutions
that advance Canada’s
REE sector to produce
and serve the global
supply market for
separated critical rare
earth products.
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▪ Timely solutions for technical and
economic issues
▪ Partnerships with other national and
international organizations, incl. joint
funding opportunities.
▪ Training and education of needed
qualified human resources
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CREEN’s engagement in industry
• CREEN formed in August 2013 -- an outcome of a series of annual Rare Earth Workshops hosted by Natural Resources Canada
• CREEN appeared before the federal Government’s Natural Resource and Finance Committees in 2015 in support of securing funding for, and is actively engaged in Canada’s Canadian REE R&D Initiative. CREEN serves as co-chair of the Initiative’s Steering Committee
• CREEN also engaged with ISO REE standards committee, NATO REE supply chain technical panels, and partners in seminars/conferences
Canada Hosts Rich REE Deposits &
Advanced Project Developments
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Canada Long REE History
• Canada has actually been a pioneering producer of
yttrium and other heavy rare earth elements from
the Elliot Lake ores - along with commercial
production of thorium from about 1960 to 1991.
• Canada has demonstrated REE process
development strengths -- with numerous Canadian
and non-Canadian deposits investigated or under
investigation in Canadian laboratories and studied
by Canadian engineering companies
Collaborative supply chain initiatives will
ensure Canada’s Vision & Goals are delivered
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CREEN Framework
▪ Near term
▪ Short, focused, industry-driven project work to support rapid production opportunities and secure Canada’s position as a key producer in the global marketplace
▪ Applying existing mineral processing, hydrometallurgy and chemical process engineering to develop unique solutions
▪ Medium to longer term
▪ Deliver improved process solutions and target more strategic, fundamental technology development
▪ Focus on further downstream processing towards finished products (e.g. metals, alloys, phosphors)
▪ Investigate new applications and market opportunities for REEs
▪ Train and develop highly qualified personnel (HQP)
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Canada’s MetSoc hosts Rare Earth Symposia
• Internationally recognized technical symposia first
convened in September 2012 in Niagara Falls
• The four REE Symposium COM ‘12,’13,’14 & ‘16,
have presented some 200 peer-edited papers from
20 countries along with numerous publications
• Canadian consultants, research laboratories,
engineering companies, and mining companies are
serious players on the REE processing area.
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COM16 REE Symposium (in association with IMPC 2016)
Technical Streams
• Characterization --Mineralogy, Geometallurgy
• Process Control -- Instrumentation, Modelling, Simulation
• Flotation -- From Chemistry to Machines
• Extractive Metallurgy -- Hydro and Pyrometallurgy
• Comminution -- AG/SAG, Crushers, HPGR, Tumbling and Stirred Mills
• Physical Separation -- Gravity, Magnetic, Electrostatic, Ore Sorting, Upgrading (physical and chemical)
• Plant Design-- Complex Ores Integrated Flowsheets
• Asset Management-- Sampling, Metal Accounting, Surveys and Flowsheet Improvement
• New Frontiers-- Harsh Environments Including Arctic, Undersea, Space and Beyond
• Environment, Recycling and Social Responsibility
• Dewatering-- Thickening, Filtering, Drying
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CREEN profile increasing
internationally
EU-JAPAN-US TRILATERAL CRITICAL MATERIALS INITIATIVE
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ISO TC298 Rare Earth
Standards
• ISO in the independent, non-governmental organization
with 161 national standards member bodies.
• REE Technical Committee created in late 2015
• Focused on standardization in the field of rare earth
ores, concentrates, metals, alloys, compounds,
materials, including the reuse and recycling of waste
rare earth products.
• Secretariat: Standardization Administration of China
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Organizing ISO’s REE work
WG – Currently six major Working
Groups
NPWI – Specific standards development
initiated under each WG
TC298: Member Countries
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Participating Countries
Australia (SA)
Canada (SCC)
China (SAC)
India (BIS)
Japan (JISC)
Korea, Republic of (KATS)
United States (ANSI)
Observing Countries
Argentina (IRAM) Israel (SII) Portugal (IPQ)
Cuba (NC) Italy (UNI) Saudi Arabia (SASO)
Czech Republic (UNMZ) Malaysia (DSM) Singapore (SPRING SG)
Egypt (EOS) Mexico (DGN) South Africa (SABS)
Finland (SFS) Netherlands
(NEN)
Spain (AENOR)
France (AFNOR) Pakistan (PSQCA) Switzerland (SNV)
Germany (DIN) Poland (PKN) Viet Nam (STAMEQ)
Iran, Islamic Republic of
(ISIRI)
Brazil should
consider playing
an active role
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Future Canadian REE events
• REE Lecture Series April 2017 (leading into CIM
Annual convention)
• Resources for Future Generations 2018
• MetSoc-hosted Extraction 2018
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Thank You
Ian M. London P. Eng., MBA
Canadian Rare Earth Element
Network
647 242 1872