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Separation plant · Malaysia

Lynas Advanced Materials Plant, Kuantan

The largest rare-earth separation capacity outside China; capacity as stated by the operator.

Lynas in Gebeng · Ryan Albrey · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

RefiningSeparation plant

What happens here

Ore from Mount Weld in Australia is cracked with sulfuric acid and separated here through hundreds of solvent-extraction stages. This single plant is the main reason a non-Chinese separated rare-earth supply exists at all.

In and out

Goes in

Rare Earths (all)

Comes out

Cerium Lanthanum Neodymium Praseodymium

Operator

Lynas Rare Earths

The largest rare-earth separator outside China, mining at Mount Weld and processing in Malaysia.

MinerLYSCF

Journeys that pass through this plant

Australian rare earths to a magnet in a motor Mined in Australia, cracked in Malaysia, magnetised in China, and fitted in Germany.

Chains that pass through here

Rare Earths to Electric Motor

Seventeen near-identical elements, separated one at a time, ending as a magnet in a wheel.

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Lynas Advanced Materials Plant, Kuantan

What happens here

In and out

Operator

Lynas Rare Earths

Journeys that pass through this plant

Chains that pass through here

Rare Earths to Electric Motor

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