Recovery of rare earth metals (REMs) from primary and secondary resources: A review

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-88

  Kumar, Vinay ^a   Jha, Manis Kumar ^a   Kumari, Archana ^a   Panda, Rekha ^a   Kumar, J Rajesh ^b   Lee, Jin Young ^b  

^a NATIONAL METALLURGICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Primary resources; Rare earth metals (REMs); Secondary resources

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SECONDARY RECOVERY;

COMMERCIAL PROCESS; DEMAND AND SUPPLY; HYBRID TECHNIQUES; PRIMARY RESOURCES; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RARE EARTH METALS; SECONDARY RESOURCES; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH;

METAL RECOVERY;

EID: 84899724566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118888551.ch16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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