Ah, California. Molycorp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Pass_rare_earth_mine Not online
yet, maybe.
ISO 9001 ---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9001 Read down.
On 3/31/11 1:52 PM, peggy miller wrote:
Hi -- Since many of us got involved in the wind turbine/magnet
production pollution problem issue, wanted to let you know that a
friend who runs a solar industry, Scott Sklar, told me that China
makes those magnets without pollution controls. But that wind turbines
in Europe and US and Japan follow specific standards that include
pollution controls, and in fact, rare earth used in making those
magnets is now being mined in California, but is required to follow
strict pollution control standards. When I asked him if those
pollution standards control the making of magnets and rare earth
mining related to the magnet production" he said that they follow the
environmental impact statements on mining and ISO9001 mfg
certification which does not allow any wastes. That everything must
either be recycled in the plant, out of the plant, or disposed in a
certified procedure (less than 1 % is - usually radioactive ore).
--
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