RE: Is this JPM starting to spend on rare earths ?27 Oct 2025 13:26
"Mkango’s Songwe Hill plan in Malawi includes on-site beneficiation and hydrometallurgical processing to produce a mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC), adding significant in‑country value before any offshore separation steps .
What “value add” in Malawi means:
The Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) outlines an open‑pit mine with on‑site crushing, grinding, flotation, and a full hydrometallurgy flowsheet (gangue leach, acid regeneration, caustic conversion, leach, purification, precipitation) to make saleable MREC rather than exporting run‑of‑mine ore or simple concentrate.
This approach upgrades ore to a high‑value intermediate product in Malawi, which is explicitly part of Mkango’s “mine, refine, recycle” strategy anchored by Songwe Hill"