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Phoenix Tailings completes preliminary designs for rare earth separation system
Phoenix Tailings has completed preliminary designs for a commercial-scale system to separate rare earth materials.
The company, based in Burlington, Massachusetts, says the system is part of its effort to build U.S. capacity for processing these materials.
The system is designed to handle more than 18,000 tons of feedstocks a year, including a range of rare earth sources.
The work advances Freedom, a roughly $1.2 billion project that aims to separate and turn rare earth materials into metals.
Rare earth oxides and metals are used in advanced manufacturing and national defence.
The project aims to offer U.S. and allied manufacturers another source of these materials, reducing reliance on supplies controlled by China, according to the company.
The designs are preliminary; the announcement does not give a construction or operating schedule.
Phoenix Tailings said it completed preliminary designs for a commercial-scale rare earth separation system.
The company said the milestone advances its Freedom separation-and-metallization project.
Freedom is designed to provide U.S. and allied manufacturers with an independent source of rare earth oxides and metals.
The project is approximately $1.2 billion and is intended to support a secure domestic supply chain.
The designs support planned U.S. capacity to process more than 18,000 tons of diversified rare earth feedstocks annually.
- Who
- Phoenix Tailings, a rare earth company.
- What
- It completed preliminary designs for a commercial-scale rare earth separation system.
- When
- The announcement was made on Oct. 16, 2026.
- Where
- Burlington, Massachusetts.
- Why
- The project is intended to build domestic capacity and give U.S. and allied manufacturers an independent source of rare earth materials.
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- Company
- Phoenix Tailings
- Project
- Freedom
- Project cost
- Approximately $1.2 billion
- Planned processing capacity
- More than 18,000 tons of diversified rare earth feedstocks annually
- Announcement location
- Burlington, Massachusetts