Construction of a $60 million state-of-the-art rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant is complete in Upton, making Wyoming an up-and-coming contender with China for processing and separating rare earths.

Processing and separating the rare earths, which will come from neighboring Crook County as part of the Bear Lodge Critical Rare Earth Mining Project, will be a game-changer for Wyoming — and the domestic supply chain as a whole.

“Not only do we expect this technology to be more efficient and better for Wyoming's land, but we expect it to be cost competitive on a global scale to diversify the domestic supply,” said Kelli Kast, vice president and chief administrative officer of Rare Element Resources Ltd. (RER), which operates both the mining and processing arms of the

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