Toyota, Tesla Y nissan are interested in Project “Rare Earths” of Penco to use minerals of intensive use in different electronic equipment and in state-of-the-art technologies, such as electromobility and the generation of renewable energies.
Project «Rare Earths»
Automotive manufacturers like Toyota, Nissan and Tesla have shown some interest in the project “Rare Earths” from Pencoin the Bío Bío region, according to Ramon Baruaexecutive director of the mining company Clarifies Resources.
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“It is important for the United States, Japan and the European Union to have alternative sources of rare earths outside of Asia. The best firms worldwide are interested”, he claimed.
The firm estimated US$ 130 million in investments, indicating that the minerals that are in the commune belonging to Gran Concepción “They are very compatible with electromobility” and can be removable “in a very clean and simple way”.
The calls “rare earths” are intensively used minerals in various electronic equipment and cutting-edge technologiesas the electromobility and the generation of renewable energies.
It has 15 elements belonging to the lanthanide group (lanthanum, neodymium, cerium, praseodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium) plus yttrium and scandium.
Baldo Prokurica former Minister of Mining during the management of sebastian pineraindicated that 90% of the use of rare earths It will be used for electromobility and renewable energy generation.
“Electric cars carry 10 times more rare earths than conventional cars, and wind turbines are large consumers of this material. Chile has important prospects and projects for the extraction of these elements in the Atacama and Bío Bío”, he pointed.
The project in Penco
In February of this year, 99% of the residents of Penco they voted against the mining project “Rare Earths”.
The company Clarify Resources denounced through a public statement several irregularities carried out by the municipality that “distorted” the vision of the project.
“We value all instances of citizen participation, but we deeply regret that the community is confused through procedures that are not contemplated in the environmental evaluation process, that are not binding and that have a political, not a technical background,” the company stated.
Writing by Gossipvehículos/Source: www.biobiochile.cl
