Search Minerals正在开发其位于加拿大拉布拉多省的稀土矿。
该公司拥有拉布拉多省的三个稀土矿区：拉布拉多省东南部的霍普辛普森港稀土区；拉布拉多省南部的亨利港稀土区；以及拉布拉多省中部的红酒综合稀土区。
目前，该公司的工作重点集中于拉布拉多省东南海岸的霍普港辛普森稀土区的Foxtrot矿床。据推测，Foxtrot矿床的总资源量为7390200吨，钕品位为1485 ppm。2017年，Search Minerals耗资200万美元修建了一个试行工厂，突破性地采用了湿法冶金工艺。该工厂从三吨多的Foxtrot的稀土矿中生产出纯度高达99%的混合稀土氧化物。
目前，Search Minerals正致力于其试行工厂的成本资金规划和工艺优化。到2020年2月，该公司希望从获得Fox Meadow和Silver Fox的岩样分析结果。
Search Minerals is developing critical rare earth element mineral assets in Labrador, Canada.
The Company controls properties in three distinct areas of the Labrador region; the Port Hope Simpson (PHS) Critical Rare Earth Element District in SE Labrador; the Henley Harbour Area in Southern Labrador; and the Red Wine Complex located in Central Labrador.
The Company’s focus, for now, is the Foxtrot deposit in the Port Hope Simpson (PHS) district located on the south-eastern Labrador coast. The Foxtrot deposit has a total indicated resource of 7,390,200 tonnes of ore with neodymium grades of 1,485 ppm. In 2017 Search Minerals completed a $2 million pilot plant using a breakthrough hydro-metallurgical process. The plant produced a 99% high purity mixed rare earth oxide concentrate from over three tonnes of Foxtrot material.
For now, Search Minerals is working on their Demonstration Plant cost/funding options and pilot plant optimization. By February 2020 the Company hopes to have the assays results from the 2019 exploration work at Fox Meadow and Silver Fox.