{"id":254133,"date":"2025-05-07T17:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/rio-tinto-and-indium-corporation-move-toward-gallium-production-in-north-america\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:51:06","slug":"rio-tinto-and-indium-corporation-move-toward-gallium-production-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/rio-tinto-and-indium-corporation-move-toward-gallium-production-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Tinto and Indium Corporation move toward gallium production in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Rio Tinto<\/strong>, in collaboration with <strong>Indium Corporation<\/strong>, has achieved the production of primary gallium from bauxite processing at its Vaudreuil aluminum refinery, located in Quebec.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expansion of gallium production<\/h2>\n\n<p>The initial stage of the project was carried out at <strong>Indium Corporation<\/strong> &#8216;s facilities in Rome, New York, where pilot-scale extraction methods were evaluated. If this phase is successful, the companies plan to establish a <strong>demonstration plant<\/strong> with an annual capacity of 3.5 tons of gallium in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, with financial support from the <strong>Quebec government<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<p>This plan envisages scaling up production to around 40 tons per year, which would be equivalent to between 5 % and 10 % of the current global supply. This volume represents a contribution, considering that <strong>gallium <\/strong>is <strong>produced in limited quantities <\/strong>and mostly outside the North American continent. <\/p>\n\n<p>Gallium is an essential element in advanced electronic applications such as radar, smart phones, electric vehicles and laptop computers. In addition, its extraction from existing aluminum refining processes represents a technological innovation and, at the same time, a strategy to ensure a sustainable supply in the region. <\/p>\n\n<p>In addition, companies are exploring the possibility of recovering other valuable materials such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/million-dollar-rare-earth-project\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"140556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scandium<\/a><\/strong>and <strong>molybdenum <\/strong>from their existing operations.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"block-921d40db-57dc-4f0b-a30e-009c45b55119\"><strong>Follow us on social media and don&#8217;t miss any of our posts!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p id=\"block-4d2f8dd1-432e-42c2-b119-b5546b87b38b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@inspenet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/inspenetnetwork\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/inspenetnetwork\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspenet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Inspenetnetwork\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (Twitter)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@inspenet?_t=8qqIL6dRGNR&amp;_r=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p id=\"block-e498bc4c-c835-456a-8d6d-48944eddf7c1\"><strong>Source and photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riotinto.com\/en\/news\/releases\/2025\/rio-tinto-produit-le-premier-extrait-de-gallium--partir-de-son-procd-daffinage-de-lalumine-avec-son-partenaire-indium-corporation-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rio Tinto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These initiatives seek to diversify the production of critical minerals through efficient and sustainable processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":254115,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13030,13060],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-254133","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-industry","categoria_noticias-mining"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/254133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/254133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=254133"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=254133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}