Aclara Resources Receives Support from the U.S. Department of Commerce
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Aclara Resources is working with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, through its SelectUSA program, to conduct a study aimed at identifying the optimal site for Aclara’s planned separation facility in the United States.
The SelectUSA program fosters business investment that supports economic development and job creation in the United States. To date, SelectUSA has facilitated over $250 billion in investments, creating or retaining more than 230,000 jobs across the country.
“We are very pleased to receive the support from the U.S. Government to find the location of our rare earth separation facility in the United States. Aclara believes that it can contribute towards securing a resilient and independent supply chain for rare earths, which are critical materials for electromobility and other key high-tech sectors of the U.S. economy,” said Aclara’s Chief Financial Officer, François Motte.
The objective of the location study is to identify an optimal site for Aclara’s separation facility, with a focus on maximizing operational efficiency and minimizing both costs and project execution timeline.
Key criteria under consideration includes:
• Financial and investment incentives
• Permitting and regulatory environment
• Commercial and fiscal landscape
• Industrial site readiness
• Infrastructure and services
• Supply of key materials required for the process
• Climate suitability
• Qualified workforce
Aclara Resources is a development-stage company that focuses on heavy rare earth mineral resources hosted in ion-adsorption clay deposits. The company currently has two projects under development: the Penco Module in the Bio-Bio Region of Chile, and the Carina Module in the State of Goiás, Brazil. Aclara’s rare earth extraction process offers several environmentally attractive features. It does not involve blasting, crushing, or milling, and therefore does not generate tailings, thus eliminating the need for a tailings storage facility. The extraction process developed by Aclara minimizes water consumption through high levels of water re-circulation made possible by the inclusion of a water treatment facility within its patented process design. The ionic clay feedstock is amenable to leaching with a common fertilizer, ammonium sulfate. Further, harmful levels of radionuclides, typical of hard rock rare earth deposits, are not concentrated within the Aclara flowsheet. Simultaneously, alongside the development of the Carina and Penco projects, the company intends to identify and evaluate further opportunities to increase future production of heavy rare earths. This will involve greenfield exploration programs and the development of additional projects within the company’s concessions in Brazil, Chile, and Peru.
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