Fund Professor Van Autenboer: Time specific Rare Earth Elements (REE) enrichments in Paleozoic phosphorites: linking Sedex brine expulsions, biochemorstatigraphic signatures, palaeo-redox proxies and novel REE ores Ghent University
Pioneer research of this project’s supervisory team (Emsbo et al. 2015, 2016) demonstrated the unrealized potential of phosphorites from the Upper Ordovician Maquoketa Group (central USA) as stratabound Rare Earth Element (REE) ores, dwarfing the economic potential of the deposits that are currently mined for these resources. In addition, the REEs can be beneficiated in a much more environmentally friendly manner. However, our understanding ...