With the continued interest of public in human space flight, need of materials has become important. Rare earths are one such important material. They are extensively used in parts for high speed (static and dynamic) machinery (such as rockets, guided vehicles, and space launch vehicles (space shuttles)), actuating and attenuating devices, high temperature applications and centrifuges. Various methods are used for their extraction from their ores using extractive metallurgy techniques followed by characterization to optimize their application specific properties. This symposium is aimed to address these advancements.
Scope includes but not limited to;
1) Identification of ore and its economic deposits.
2) Identification of secondary sources (such as coal and coal by products (Liganite, anthracite, acid mine drainage))
3) Beneficiation and mineral processing techniques pertinent to rare earths.
4) Extractive metallurgy (pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy and electrometallurgy) of rare earths
5) Thermodynamics, kinetics and rate processes
6) Unit operations and design
7) Characterization (chemical, physical and mechanical)
Muhammad Musaddique Ali Rafique 