List of Rare Earths Deposits ex China



The purpose of this list is to give a general overview on the rare earth space outside China. This is not investment advice, please do your own in-depth research, starting with the links provided.

Explanations:
  • MR means mineable resource. The quantity indication is in millions of metric tons.
  • TREO means total rare earth oxides.
  • "-" means no data have been made available, for example because the absence of authoritative documentation such as National Instrument 43-101, but not exclusively.
  • "N/A" means "not available".
  • TREO are indicated as percentage of mineable resource and as total quantity in millions of metric tons. To give you a scale, the total rare earth imports of USA in 2019 were ca. 0.020 mio tons, roughly equivalent to one year of US rare earths consumption.
  • While a number of deposits may be considered being too small, the large size of a deposit is not necessarily an indicator of its feasibility.
  • Be reminded, that rare earth is not single ore and not single element mining, it is the whole chain of lanthanides plus scandium and yttrium from a variety of different ores and clays.
  • Not one deposit is like the other. There are large differences between them, which affects their feasibility. For example, the quantity of each rare earth oxide contained can differ widely.
  • The quantity of TREO is based on 100%. However, generally much less than 100% are recoverable in the process. Some elements of some deposits may not be recoverable at all.
  • Some deposits are "polymetallic", i.e. they contain also substantial percentages of non-rare earth metals, e.g. zirconium, hafnium, niobium, et al.

Notes:
  1. Not all data are from authoritative documentation. Some may be preliminary data published by the relevant operator or historic data.
  2. While we strive to keep this list updated, there is no guarantee that the data on this site are accurate, up to date, complete or correct.
  3. Errors & Omissions Excluded. We reject all and any liability for the contents of this list. We offer the information in the list free of charge as a general overview over the rare earth junior miner landscape.

For additional deposits please see this list here.

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