Rare Earth Separation Hub Consortium
Unrare Technologies converts identified feedstock into high‑purity individual metals, rare earth oxides and carbonates for magnets, batteries, electronics and defense. Efficient, negligible environmental impact, geopolitically resilient separation capacity.
Why we exist
Critical metals and rare earth elements are essential to permanent magnets, electric vehicles, wind turbines and advanced electronics. Yet refining capacity is concentrated in one country: China separates around 98% of the world's rare earths, with environmentally intensive processes.
Unrare Technologies exists to change this dynamic, delivering efficient, negligible environmental impact, geopolitically resilient separation capacity to bolster and stabilise a volatile supply chain.
Technology
Our proprietary extraction technology delivers high‑purity metals and minerals with negligible environmental impact and superior efficiency compared to currently available processes. It begins with an honest audit of the feedstock and ends with individual products ready for magnet, battery and electronics manufacturers.
Independent assessment of a feedstock, flowsheet or plant: what it can produce, at what purity, and what it will cost in energy, reagents and time.
Our separation process isolates individual elements with superior efficiency and a negligible environmental impact profile compared with currently available routes.
Rare earths and scandium to oxide. Gallium and germanium to metal. High‑purity copper at 5N and 6N, and gold, silver, platinum, palladium and iridium.
Rigorous, commercially grounded reviews of separation and refining technology for investors, developers and off‑takers.
Design, piloting and scale‑up of rare earth and critical metal separation flowsheets, from mixed concentrate to LREE and HREE.
Products
Individual rare earth oxides, separated light from heavy, and a portfolio of battery, electronic and industrial materials produced to high purity from the same feedstocks.
Battery‑grade nickel sulphate first, with nickel chloride (NiCl2·6H2O) and nickel oxide (NiO) from the same circuit.
Battery‑grade cobalt sulphate, with cobalt chloride (CoCl2·6H2O) and cobalt oxide (CoO).
High‑purity manganese sulphate monohydrate (HPMSM), plus the chloride (MnCl2·4H2O) and the oxides MnO, Mn2O3, Mn3O4 and MnO2. A diverse high‑purity manganese suite is our edge as battery makers look beyond sulphate.
High‑purity titania, and the ideal feed for an emerging titanium metal route that replaces the energy‑intensive, environmentally damaging Kroll process.
Feedstock for solar‑grade silicon, optical glass and semiconductor applications.
High‑purity vanadium pentoxide for flow batteries and specialty alloys.
Zinc oxide or zinc carbonate, recovered to high purity.
Iron recovered as high‑purity hematite with real value. Every other process leaves an iron sludge or slag that is expensive to dispose of and an environmental liability.
Gallium and germanium metal, indium, scandium oxide, copper at 5N and 6N, and gold, silver, platinum, palladium and iridium.
The consortium
Unrare.Earth is organised as a consortium: university science, industry partners, engineering, logistics, legal and fiscal expertise, all pointed at a single commercially viable, sustainable platform.
Consortium partners
For mining companies and state enterprises
Mining corporations that hold rare earth and critical mineral resources increasingly have the intelligence to see where the value chain is fragile: observatories, AI‑driven supply‑chain monitoring, procurement planning. What most still lack is the step between the deposit and the magnet. Separation and refining are those steps, and they are the ones we bring.
Identified feedstock; land, licences and a national mandate to build domestic critical‑mineral capability.
A technology audit of your feedstock, then a proprietary separation flowsheet producing individual high‑purity products with negligible environmental impact.
A co‑located separation hub feeding permanent magnet, battery and defence manufacturers at home, with supply that is no longer dependent on a single foreign source.
We start with an independent technology audit of what you already hold: deposits, tailings and existing flowsheets. Bankable answers before capital is committed.
Hub structures are joint ventures with the resource owner, with skills transfer and a centre‑of‑excellence partnership built into the programme.
Leadership
The team behind Unrare has conceived, developed, designed, commissioned and operated hydrometallurgical and separation plants at commercial scale. Disruptive innovation on a global scale in critical minerals extraction and rare earth separation.
Separation science led by people who have published, patented and, more importantly, produced.
Flowsheets that have run at scale, not only in the laboratory, across nickel, cobalt, manganese, titanium and rare earths.
Proprietary extraction and separation technology, backed by a consortium of universities, producers and engineers.
Expression of interest
We work with governments, investors and industry stakeholders committed to establishing secure, sustainable alternatives for critical minerals and REE.
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