22,000 tonnes of REE per annum at the Gebeng factory, this plant will be the world's biggest rare earth plant and will therefore generate a huge amount of waste too. Processing agents and chemicals that will be used in rare earth extraction at the plant (Lynas Corporation 2012) include ammonium bicarbonate, oxalic acid, sulfuric acid,
Lynas Rare Earths is a heavily traded company listed with the Sydney Stock Exchange. Lynas mines and concentrates rare earth (RE) ores through its Mount Weld operations in Western Australia; then transports and ships the concentrate some 6,500km to its secondary processing plant, Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in …
Australian miner Lynas Rare Earth has won a reprieve until March 2026 to continue its activities in its Malaysian plant that produce radioactive waste material. Science Minister Chang Lih Kang said Malaysia agreed to give Lynas time to implement a new process to extract radioactive element from rare raw earth that it imports and from the …
Recently, Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) has become one of the largest rare earths processing plant in the world producing rare earth elements (REE) in Gebeng, Pahang. The primary raw material is lanthanide concentrate (LC) which is imported from Mount Weld mine in Australia and shipped to Malaysia.
Locals blamed the plant, which was closed in 1992, for birth defects and several leukaemia cases. Malaysia's last rare earth processing facility in Bukit Merah started operating in 1985 without a long-term waste storage site because a succession of nearby communities had successfully protested the site being located on their land.