A railcar dumper at the East Intercourse Island (EII) port facility, which handled 45 million tonnes of Rio's iron ore shipments in 2024, experienced severe flooding this week.
West Virginia University received a grant from the US Department of Energy to develop a pre-commercial demonstration facility for separating and refining rare earth elements from acid mine drainage and coal waste.
Saudi Arabia has spent more than $37 million since 2017 searching for deposits but only managed to identify reserves that would be “severely uneconomic” to mine.
The Imbabura provincial court said a 2014 environmental license and other permissions given for the Llurimagua project do not comply with proper parameters.