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12 / March 2020 powderbulk.com with investigating chemical industry accidents and making safety recom- mendations based on its findings. Texas Mineral Resources, partners announce rare- earth pilot processing facility in Colorado Texas Mineral Resources Corp. (TMRC) and USA Rare Earth LLC, New York, NY, a funding and development partner, have announced a pilot process devel- opment facility in Wheat Ridge, CO. TMRC is an exploration com- pany focused on heavy rare earths, technology metals, and industrial minerals and is based in Sierra Blanca, TX. The facility will also rely on Inventure Renewables, Fenix NZ Ltd., Resource Develop- ment Inc., and Pro Solv Consulting to work in conjunction to extract and purify multiple rare earth elements. The partner companies will use the facility to separate and purify rare earth and other metals leached from ore mined at the Round Top project near El Paso, TX. The process develop- ment facility will incorporate test equipment and dedicated contin- uous ion exchange-continuous ion chromatography (CIX-CIC) pro- cessing technology. The ore will be processed into fully separated individual high-purity rare earths, including scandium, lithium, haf- nium, zirconium, gallium, and beryllium, among others. The pilot facility's location in Colorado leverages the area's prox- imity to the Colorado School of Mines and Denver, CO, which has been a center of mineral technology for the US with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and other locally based private groups nearby. The pilot plant will even- tually be scaled up and moved to Texas, where TMRC and USA Rare notification, if an involved facil- ity has submitted a report to the National Response Center (NRC), it can satisfy its duty to the CSB by notifying the CSB of the NRC report identification number. The CSB, Washington, DC, is an independent federal agency tasked The required accidental chemical release notification must include the owner/operator's contact informa- tion; location details; the time of the release; whether the release caused fatalities, injuries, or property dam- age; the materials involved; and other specifics. In lieu of a separate