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Phoenix Tailings announces plans for rare-earth separation plant in Rochester, N.Y.

Chemical Engineering (chemengonline.com) Trade press Published 22nd October 2026 Global

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<p>Phoenix Tailings, Inc. (Woburn, Mass.) announced it has selected Eastman Business Park in Rochester, N.Y., for Freedom Separation, a commercial-scale facility that will convert a diverse range of mixed rare earth feedstocks into separated oxides for domestic rare earth metal production. The facility is part of the company&#8217;s $1.2 billion-plus Freedom Project, an integrated separation-and-metallization [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.chemengonline.com/phoenix-tailings-announces-plans-for-rare-earth-separation-plant-in-rochester-n-y/">Phoenix Tailings announces plans for rare-earth separation plant in Rochester, N.Y.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.chemengonline.com">Chemical Engineering</a>.</p>

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Chemical Engineering (chemengonline.com) · Trade Publication
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22nd October 2026
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Commodities & Input Costs
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22nd October 2026 · 17:15

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Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (18.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39.0/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points).

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Possibly the same underlying story as Phoenix Tailings to open $375m rare earth facility in Rochester, NY — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.