2017

January 

UrbanMines signed a strategic cooperation agreement with a materials science team from a university in Jiangxi Province to jointly develop extraction, separation, and purification technologies for oxides and compounds of lanthanum, cerium, and neodymium. High-purity single rare earth solutions were prepared via neutralization, sulfide precipitation, ion exchange, and other processes. The company also upgraded reactors, precision filters, ion exchange columns, and other equipment, officially entering the rare earth compound business.