USA Rare Earth LLC released a technical overview presentation on its Round Top rare earth project in West Texas, describing the deposit’s geology and planned processing approach. The company said Round Top is a rhyolite laccolith with consistent grades, a near-zero stripping ratio, and mineralization dominated by heavy rare earth elements along with gallium, zirconium and hafnium, with low uranium and thorium content noted. The presentation outlines a processing concept centered on heap leaching using dilute sulfuric acid at ambient temperature and a solvent extraction flowsheet, and it references ongoing pilot and demonstration work at the company’s Wheat Ridge facility, including a new mixer-settler demonstration setup and a planned machine-learning “digital twin” model developed with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. You can access the full presentation through the link below.

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