Thorium News: Australian Focus

If it is so profitable, how come nobody has done it?
Malaysia Kini
They have no idea how to deal with such a huge amount of thorium hydroxide they have now. Cloudnine: If you can extract so much energy which can be translated to billions of dollars, would Australia or the United States give that to us? If that was so, ...

India's Nuclear Power Problem
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His government now openly sought foreign assistance to develop nuclear energy, in sharp contrast with India's prior focus on creating a homegrown system that would exploit India's vast thorium reserves. Citing reasons such as combating climate change, ...

PAW Intersects Highest Grade Rare Earth Intersection to Date From Mrima Hill
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Camp Hill from element associations appears to be a separate more Potassium and Titanium rich intrusion that has lower levels of Thorium than the other carbonatites to the north. This separate intrusion is also characterized by minor mafic and ...

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Australia's Tantalum, The Most Important Element You've Never Heard Of
Gizmodo Australia
Tantalum is rarely found in its elemental form — the element is often found with niobium and the radioactive elements thorium and uranium, and industrial processes are required to extract pure tantalum. South America and Australia account for over ...

Citizen backlash keeps Malaysia rare earth plant on hold
Reuters India
By Siva Sithraputhran | GEBENG, Malaysia (Reuters) - The expensive machinery lies silent, idling as Malaysia's government weighs a delicate decision to allow shipments of raw material to arrive from Australia and finally start operations at the world's ...

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Citizen backlash keeps Malaysia rare earth plant on hold
euronews
By Siva Sithraputhran GEBENG, Malaysia (Reuters) – The expensive machinery lies silent, idling as Malaysia's government weighs a delicate decision to allow shipments of raw material to arrive from Australia and finally start operations at the world's ...
Citizen resistance keeps Malaysia rare earths plant on holdMineweb

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Citizen backlash keeps Malaysia rare earth plant on hold
Reuters UK
By Siva Sithraputhran | GEBENG, Malaysia (Reuters) - The expensive machinery lies silent, idling as Malaysia's government weighs a delicate decision to allow shipments of raw material to arrive from Australia and finally start operations at the world's ...

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China's 'rare earth' stance proving a complex issue
Bangkok Post
The traditional rare earth production process in China uses toxic acid for refining, and the presence of radioactive materials like thorium in rare earth mines poses dangers to miners. Essentially, increasing scrutiny and enforcement of environmental ...

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China's stranglehold on rare earths production to ease in the future
Proactive Investors Australia
Australia's Lynas Corporation Limited is Molycorp's closest competitor but the company has been facing several permitting delays with its Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) being set up at Pahang in Malaysia. However, the project has made progress ...

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Malaysia: Rare Earth Processing Plant Creates Backlash
Global Voices Online
The situation unfolded when the New York Times published an article revealing that Lynas Corporation, an Australian mining company based in Western Australia, has established a processing plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, called the Lynas Advanced Materials ...

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