Luzhou Rare Earth Industry Transformation Road

     Rare earth has the reputation of “industrial vitamins”. Nowadays it has become an extremely important strategic resource. Rare earth element oxides are 15 kinds of lanthanide oxides with an atomic number of 57 to 71 in the periodic table, and oxides of 17 elements of cerium (Sc) and yttrium (Y) similar in chemical properties to lanthanides. . Rare earth elements have been widely used in petroleum, chemical, metallurgy, textile, ceramics, glass, permanent magnet materials and other fields. With the advancement of technology and continuous breakthrough in application technology, the value of rare earth oxides will become larger and larger.

     Last year, some data of the rare earth industry showed the current situation of loss in the industry. Today, the transformation of the rare earth industry has been carried out.

      China Southern Rare Earth Group Co., Ltd. was established in Cangzhou City, Jiangxi Province recently. This is a major measure for the national rare earth industry to promote resource integration and development, and to develop and strengthen the high-end mineral industry. It also means that the rare earth kingdom has been opened. A new chapter in the orderly development of the rare earth industry and the optimization and upgrading of the industry.

Restoration of governance, abandoned mines become cornucopia

       Cangzhou is the main producing area of ionic rare earths in China and the invention of rare earth mining technology in the south. In the past, due to disorderly over-exploitation and backward process, the soil erosion and environmental pollution in some rare earth mining areas in Cangzhou were serious. In recent years, Ganzhou has vigorously promoted the rectification and integration of rare earth resources, cracked down on violations of laws and regulations, and explored the principles of the mining order.

       Since May 2011, the Luzhou rare earth mine has been completely rectified. Through rectification and integration, the unified planning, unified mining, unified management and unified management of rare earth mines have been achieved. Cangzhou also carried out in-depth rectification of rare earth smelting, separation and production order, and established Cangzhou Keyuan Rare Earth Technology Co., Ltd. to engage in rare earth mine mining and separation technology and process development.

      For the abandoned mines that have been polluted, Ganzhou vigorously implemented the mine geological environment restoration and management project to realize the green transformation of the mining area. Longnan County, which is known as the “hometown of China's heavy rare earths”, is vigorously promoting “a family of one mountain nest, planting a fruit, putting a pond of fish, raising a chicken and pig”. The economy's mode has turned the wild bald mountain that was originally unattended into a cornucopia. At present, only the 10,000-mu navel orange base has been formed in the rare earth mining area of Longnan County and its surrounding areas.

Deep transformation, combination of production, study and research to promote deep processing of rare earth

      For some time, the export of rare earth products in Ganzhou has been dominated by rare earth compounds and rare earth metals, and rare earth new materials and applied products are relatively few. Focusing on the "Several Opinions of the State Council on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of the Central Central Soviet Area, such as Minnan", the development orientation of the national rare metal industrial base established in Ganzhou, Cangzhou spares no effort to promote the deep transformation of the rare earth industry and fully exploit the high added value of rare earth resources.

      Focusing on the technical needs of upgrading the rare earth industry, Cangzhou strengthens the construction of a scientific and technological innovation platform that is enterprise-oriented, market-oriented, and combines production, education and research. The National Ion-Rare Earth Resources Efficient Development and Utilization Engineering Technology Research Center, Zhangzhou National Tungsten and Rare Earth New Materials High-tech The technology industrialization base has been approved successively. The academician workstation of the Australian Ketai Tools Technology Co., Ltd. and the Jiangxi University of Science and Technology Academician workstation have been established successively, forming a strong support for capturing key technologies, cultivating scientific research results, and attracting leading talents.

      Many mining companies have intensified their efforts in technological transformation, entered the application end of the rare earth industry, and promoted the transformation of production methods from primary processing, simple use of resources to intensive processing and recycling of resources.

       At present, Ganzhou has formed a complete rare earth industrial system integrating geological exploration, mining and mining, smelting and separation, deep processing and application, product testing, R&D and design, which drives more high-quality rare earth enterprises to scale, cluster, specialize and high-end. The direction of development. In 2014, the output value of Luzhou Rare Earth Tungsten Industry Cluster exceeded 100 billion yuan, and rare earth resources are being developed and utilized in an orderly manner.