"Navoiyuran" DK conducts pilot-industrial research in the field of extracting rare earth elements from underground solutions together with educational and scientific research institutions as part of the product range expansion program. Experimental batches of collective concentrates of oxides of rare earth elements of the rhenium lanthanide group are obtained based on the use of selective mass transfer processes.
To date, scientific research works are being carried out in cooperation with the scientific research laboratory of JSC "NKMK" and the Navoi State University of Mining and Technologies. In production conditions, the technology of processing rare earth elements of the light group is being tested in experimental industrial extraction equipment. Specialists managed to separate cerium oxide (Ceo2) and lanthanum (La2o3) from the concentrates obtained in laboratory conditions.
Also, in cooperation with leading metallurgical specialists and scientists of the Central Research Laboratory (MITL) of "NKMK" JSC, scientific and practical work is being carried out on the development of technology for complex processing of uranium-vanadium chernaslans ores. In this direction, an ore processing section of the "Ma'danli" mine in Uchkuduq district was established.