Rare earths top agenda at first ever Central Asia-EU summit

Kazakhstan Announces Major Rare Earths Discovery Ahead of EU Summit

On the eve of the first-ever Central Asia-European Union summit, Kazakhstan announced the discovery of vast deposits of rare earths, a big nugget of information clearly designed to attract foreign investment. The two-day summit kicked off on April 3 in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, with the leaders of Central Asian states, along with European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in attendance.  T…

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Rare earths top agenda at first ever Central Asia-EU summit

At the first-ever Central Asia-European Union (EU) summit in Uzbekistan, the issue of rare earths is very much high, even highest, priority. ...

EU goes hunting for Central Asia's mineral riches at Samarkand summit

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Social acceptability will be at the heart of the priorities of the new Chief Executive Officer of Métaux Torngat, Yves Leduc. The company plans to develop a rare earth mine in northern Quebec and a rare earth separation plant in Sept-Îles, Vigneault Industrial Park, which would include a tailings park. For Yves Leduc, social acceptability will be the most important, but also the most difficult, element to achieve. "We cannot move forward without…