NEWS Uganda’s Rare Earth Windfall: Promise, Peril, and the Market’s Watchful Eye

Uganda's Makuutu rare earth project offers strategic potential, promising 532 million tonnes of rare earth resources with complex geopolitical implications.

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Written by: Daniel
You Jest? Makuutu has amongst the lowest grades of any RE project in the World, and apparently it is not a true Ionic clay so the recoveries are woeful. It is also the potential to become an ESG nightmare as most of the higher-grade materials lies in river flats that are currently being farmed by the locals who draw their water supplies from wells into the active aquifer.
 
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