Our Purpose
Ionic Rare Earths Elements for life
The circularity of magnets and heavy rare earths
Ionic Rare Earths is harnessing our technology to accelerate the mining, refining and recycling of the magnets and heavy rare earths critical for the energy transition, advanced manufacturing, and defence.
Our vision is to facilitate a resilient world for future generations through the delivery of secure, sustainable, traceable magnet and heavy rare earths.
As a steward of sustainable business and extractive practices we are focused on ensuring sustainable practices, and we are working with strategic partners and creating technological innovations to support this mission.
Purpose
Why Ionic Rare Earths Exists
Security, Sustainability, Supply – Building Circular Economies
The growing capability demand for advanced manufacturing, renewable energy technologies (particularly wind turbines), renewable infrastructure, and defence is driving a significant increase in the need for critical minerals and magnets.
This surge in demand is occurring alongside an accelerating push toward enhanced sustainability, sovereign security, and a net-zero carbon future.
Magnet and rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for high-tech applications crucial to the new economy, specifically for defence, advanced manufacturing, and renewable energy.
IonicRE acts as a key player in solving this global challenge by pioneering circular economies and regenerative supply chains for efficiently, sustainably, and cost-effectively sourced (refined and recycled) magnets and heavy rare earths.
The benefits of a circular economy for magnets are immense, particularly in energy, advanced manufacturing, and defence. This approach ensures a consistent supply of critical magnets and components to sovereign nations for the production of advanced aircraft, spacecraft, defence systems, wind farms, vehicle manufacturing and more.
By repurposing magnet waste or magnets nearing the end of their life into new products and applications, IonicRE offers a de-mining and de-risking solution for the global energy transition, helping to secure a sustainable future while reducing reliance on mining and virgin material extraction.
Vision
What Ionic Rare Earths aims to achieve
IonicRE is leading the secure supply of magnet rare earths, leveraging our sustainable technology, pioneering magnet recycling to drive the next generation of wind turbines, electronic vehicles, defence, and advanced manufacturing.
Our vision is a closed-loop supply chain that minimises environmental impact and maximises access to critical, strategic raw materials, through targeted global expansion and empowering new benchmarks in sovereign capability and innovation.
Mission
How Ionic Rare Earths plans to achieve the vision and what we doing right now
Ionic Technologies
The Company’s 100% owned magnet recycling subsidiary, Ionic Technologies International Limited (Ionic Technologies), based in Belfast, UK, has begun demonstration plant processing of recycled magnets in 2023 via a patented hydrometallurgical process. Now producing high purity magnet Rare Earth Oxides (REOs), our supply chain engagement is developing rapidly.
Ionic Rare Earths is focused on adopting sustainable practices, working with strategic partners, creating technological innovations and ethical business standards to achieve the mission of sustainable mining, refining and recycling magnet and heavy rare earths to empower manufacturing of low carbon technologies, communication, defence and transportation applications.
Makuutu
Ionic Rare Earths’ aim is to advance its Makuutu Rare Earths Project (Makuutu) in Uganda into a significant long-life, low-cost, supplier of high-value magnet and heavy rare earths. Makuutu is one of the largest Ionic Adsorption Clay (IAC) deposits outside of China, and is receiving global interest due to the high quality, balanced basket of magnet and heavy rare earths, free of radionuclides.
Makuutu is well advanced and highlighted by near-surface mineralisation, significant exploration upside, proven ionic metallurgical characteristics and access to tier-one infrastructure.
Ionic Rare Earths’ is working with strategic partners to develop its integrated strategy to create downstream supply chain value by developing its own magnet and heavy rare earths refinery, which will separate the unique and high value Makuutu mineralisation into the full spectrum of rare earths plus scandium for customers globally.
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