US Chips Face Supply Chain Curbs Yttrium and scandium shortages threaten US chip production exposing critical supply chain vulnerabilities in semiconductor manufacturing equipment and 5G filters

Yttrium and scandium shortages disrupt US chip production, exposing semiconductor reliance on critical minerals. How will supply chains adapt?
#Yttrium #scandium #chip
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Amerikaanse industrie kampt met tekorten zeldzame aardmetalen WASHINGTON - De luchtvaart- en halfgeleidersindustrie in de Verenigde Staten kampt met een steeds groter tekort aan zeldzame aardmetalen. Dat zeggen insiders binnen de industrie een paar weken voordat...

Amerikaanse industrie kampt met tekorten zeldzame aardmetalen

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Synthesis and Evaluation of Hydrophilic 1,10-Phenanthroline Derivative for the Separation of Scandium(III) and Yttrium(III) | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Hua, Liu, and co-workers @InorgChem #DS_DAPhen #TODGA #scandium #yttrium #separation

Rio Tinto becomes first North American producer of scandium oxide Quebec plant's nameplate capacity of three tonnes per year represents approximately 20% of the global market.

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Scandium Salt Shines as Powerful Blue-Light Photocatalyst

Researchers at the University of Chemistry and Technology reported in Nature Communications that a scandium salt acts as a photocatalyst under blue light (~450 nm), enabling oxidation reactions. getnews.me/scandium-salt-shines-as-... #scandium #photocatalysis

Sunrise Energy Metals Doubles Scandium Resources Amid Supply Challenges Sunrise Energy Metals has significantly increased its scandium resources at the Syerston Project as global supply tightens due to market pressures.

Sunrise Energy Metals Doubles Scandium Resources Amid Supply Challenges #New_South_Wales #Sunrise_Energy #Scandium #Syerston_Project

NioCorp Developments shares rose 15.66% Tuesday after the U.S. Department of Defense awarded $10 million under the Defense Production Act to support domestic scandium supply chain development via its subsidiary, Elk Creek Resources.

#NB #NBStock #NBNews #NBStockNews #NioCorp #Scandium

US awards NioCorp unit up to $10 million for scandium project in Nebraska (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense said on Tuesday it has awarded up to $10 million to Elk Creek Resources, a unit of NioCorp Developments (NASDAQ:NB) Ltd, to increase domestic supply of scandium as it looks to reduce reliance on China for critical minerals. The funds, provided under the Defense Production Act, will support feasibility study, additional reserve drilling and updated cost estimates for NioCorp’s Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in southeast Nebraska. Shares of the company rose 4.5% in morning trade. The U.S. has not mined scandium since 1969. The lightweight metal is used to strengthen aluminum alloys used in defense, aerospace and energy industries, but nearly all global supply comes from China, Russia and Ukraine. NioCorp said the award aligns with President Donald Trump’s executive order in March to boost domestic mineral production and could help secure up to $800 million in debt financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Tuesday’s funding will assist with engineering, drilling and alloy qualification efforts with a U.S. defense contractor, the company said. It did not give a detailed cost breakdown. The Pentagon’s grant is part of a broader effort to secure domestic supplies of key materials and shed reliance on foreign suppliers, especially China. The Elk Creek Project is described by NioCorp as a shovel-ready, high-grade critical minerals deposit targeting production of scandium, niobium, titanium and other rare earth elements. With NB making headlines, savvy investors are asking: Is it truly valued fairly? In a market full of overpriced darlings, identifying true value can be challenging. InvestingPro's advanced AI algorithms have analyzed NB alongside thousands of other stocks to uncover hidden gems. These undervalued stocks, potentially including NB, could offer substantial returns as the market corrects. In 2024 alone, our AI identified several undervalued stocks that later surged by 30 or more. Is NB poised for similar growth? Don't miss the opportunity to find out.

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Tuning der Mikrostruktur: Eine Schale aus Al3(Mg,Sc)2 fängt Wasserstoff ein und vermindert die Versprödungsgefahr, während feine Nanopartikel aus Al3Sc die Festigkeit erhöhen.
#hydrogenEmbrittlement #aluminiumalloy #scandium #ductility #strength #intermetalliccompound

A Pie chart showing the percentage of Rare Earth Suppliers to the US, where 80% comes from China

#China has imposed new trade #restrictions on #samarium, #gadolinium, #terbium, #dysprosium, #lutetium, #scandium, and #yttrium.

These metals are #critical to American big #tech.

From The Ashes: Coal Ash May Offer Rich Source Of Rare Earth Elements For most of history, the world got along fine without the rare earth elements. We knew they existed, we knew they weren’t really all that rare, and we really didn’t have much use for them — until we discovered just how useful they are and made ourselves absolutely dependent on them, to the point where not having them would literally grind the world to a halt. This dependency has spurred a search for caches of rare earth elements in the strangest of places, from muddy sediments on the sea floor to asteroids. But there’s one potential source that’s much closer to home: coal ash waste. According to a study from the University of Texas Austin, the 5 gigatonnes of coal ash produced in the United States between 1950 and 2021 might contain as much as $8.4 billion worth of REEYSc — that’s the 16 lanthanide rare earth elements plus yttrium and scandium, transition metals that aren’t strictly rare earths but are geologically associated with them and useful in many of the same ways. The study finds that about 70% of this coal ash largesse could still be accessible in the landfills and ponds in which it was dumped after being used for electrical generation or other industrial processes; the remainder is locked away in materials like asphalt and concrete, where it was used as a filler. The concentration of REEYSc in ash waste depends on where the coal was mined and ranges from 264 mg/kg for Powder River coal to 431 mg/kg for coal from the Appalachian Basin. Oddly, they find that recovery rates are inversely proportional to the richness of the ash. The study doesn’t discuss any specific methods for recovery of REEYSc from coal ash at the industrial scale, but it does reference an earlier paper that mentions possible methods we’ve seen before in our Mining and Refining series, including physical beneficiation, which separates the desired minerals from the waste material using properties such as shape, size, or density, and hydrometallurgical methods such as acid leaching or ion exchange. The paper also doesn’t mention how these elements accumulated in the coal ash in the first place, although we assume that Carboniferous-period plants bioaccumulated the minerals before they died and started turning into coal. Of course, this is just preliminary research, and no attempt has yet been made to commercialize rare earth extraction from coal ash. There are probably serious technical and regulatory hurdles, not least of which would be valid concerns for the environmental impacts of disturbing long-ignored ash piles. On the other hand, the study mentions “mine-mouth” power plants, where mines and generating plants were colocated as possibly the ideal place to exploit since ash was used to backfill the mine works right on the same site.

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From The Ashes: Coal Ash May Offer Rich Source Of Rare Earth Elements For most of history, the world got along fine without the rare earth elements. We knew they existed, we knew they weren’t really all that rare, and we really didn’t have much use for them — until we discovered just how useful they are and made ourselves absolutely dependent on them, to the point where not having them would literally grind the world to a halt. This dependency has spurred a search for caches of rare earth elements in the strangest of places, from muddy sediments on the sea floor to asteroids. But there’s one potential source that’s much closer to home: coal ash waste. According to a study from the University of Texas Austin, the 5 gigatonnes of coal ash produced in the United States between 1950 and 2021 might contain as much as $8.4 billion worth of REEYSc — that’s the 16 lanthanide rare earth elements plus yttrium and scandium, transition metals that aren’t strictly rare earths but are geologically associated with them and useful in many of the same ways. The study finds that about 70% of this coal ash largesse could still be accessible in the landfills and ponds in which it was dumped after being used for electrical generation or other industrial processes; the remainder is locked away in materials like asphalt and concrete, where it was used as a filler. The concentration of REEYSc in ash waste depends on where the coal was mined and ranges from 264 mg/kg for Powder River coal to 431 mg/kg for coal from the Appalachian Basin. Oddly, they find that recovery rates are inversely proportional to the richness of the ash. The study doesn’t discuss any specific methods for recovery of REEYSc from coal ash at the industrial scale, but it does reference an earlier paper that mentions possible methods we’ve seen before in our Mining and Refining series, including physical beneficiation, which separates the desired minerals from the waste material using properties such as shape, size, or density, and hydrometallurgical methods such as acid leaching or ion exchange. The paper also doesn’t mention how these elements accumulated in the coal ash in the first place, although we assume that Carboniferous-period plants bioaccumulated the minerals before they died and started turning into coal. Of course, this is just preliminary research, and no attempt has yet been made to commercialize rare earth extraction from coal ash. There are probably serious technical and regulatory hurdles, not least of which would be valid concerns for the environmental impacts of disturbing long-ignored ash piles. On the other hand, the study mentions “mine-mouth” power plants, where mines and generating plants were colocated as possibly the ideal place to exploit since ash was used to backfill the mine works right on the same site.

From the Ashes: Coal Ash May Offer Rich Source of Rare Earth Elements For most of history, the wo...

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Theoretical Insights into Rare-Earth-Catalyst-Controlled Diastereo- and Enantioselective [3 + 2] Annulation of Aromatic Aldimines with Styrenes | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Luo & co-workers @InorgChem #scandium #styrene #Sc_Ph #catalysis #annulation #CHactivation

Tubes sorted for next few builds. Mostly road frames for the next wee while with a couple of crit bikes in the mix. #aluminium #scandium #dedacciai #7005

Game-Changing ALD Breakthrough: KJLC Achieves First Scandium Nitride PEALD Process Blog about Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Atomic Layer Etching (ALE) and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

Game-Changing ALD Breakthrough: KJLC Achieves First Scandium Nitride PEALD Process #Scandium #aldep
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Boron-Doped Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Synthesis and Computational Analysis of a Family of Heteroatom-Doped Molecular Carbons | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Rodríguez-Fortea and co-workers @InorgChem #boron #nitride #scandium #metallofullerenes #DFT

Scandium can be added to aluminium to create strong and lightweight alloys that are used in aircraft components, bicycle frames, tent poles, and lacrosse sticks.
#periodictable #elements #scandium #bicycle #chemistry #education #art

I don’t exist to impress the wor#niobium #iridium #gallium #Tantalum #Nickel #Lanthanum #Cerium #Praseodymium #Neodymium #Promethium #Samarium #Europium #Gadolinium #Terbium #Dysprosium #Holmium #Erbium #Thulium #Ytterbium #Lutetium #Scandium #yttrium

7/ 📈 Electronic waste revenue is driven by #neodymium oxide, essential for permanent magnets in electronics and EVs. Industrial waste revenue, on the other hand, is driven by #scandium oxide. 🌍 #RenewableEnergy