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Ganzhou Rare Earth Cluster

Separation plant · China

Ganzhou Rare Earth Cluster

A cluster rather than a single plant; the centre of world heavy-rare-earth separation.

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Separating dysprosium and terbium from the other rare earths is chemically the hardest step in the magnet chain, and it is overwhelmingly done here.

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Southern Chinese clay to the dysprosium that lets a magnet run hot Grades under a tenth of a percent, and almost the only heavy rare earths on the market.

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