Executives from Energy Fuels Resources, which owns the White Mesa Mill in San Juan County, announced last month that they had successfully produced a concentration of rare earth metals from something called monazite sand. And this week, they announced plans to import at least 2,500 tons of the sand a year for the next three years from a plant in the state of Georgia.
Energy Fuels president Mark Chalmers told potential investors on a call Tuesday that the company plans to ramp up production in 2021...