Material and Energy Requirement for Rare Earth Production …
Gupta and Krishnamurthy estimated that the energy required for mining placer deposits varies from 0.02 GJ to 0.07 GJ/tonne of ore, mostly for physical concentration.9 Based on the amount of energy estimated by the Bureau of Mines, we calculate that each tonne of mineral ore containing REM requires about 0.4 GJ.19 The …