How to Use monazite in a Sentence

monazite

noun

• That amount alone would be enough to make China the world’s largest processor of monazite for rare-earths.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Much of the new interest in monazite, though, is focused on a second type, called heavy mineral sands.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Still, in the new formations, they are held in separate particles such as monazite and xenotime.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
• Roughly 30 percent to 40 percent of the rare-earth ore mined at Bayan Obo is monazite.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• By the early 1960s, bastnaesite had eclipsed monazite as the primary rare-earth ore.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Processing of monazite ore could provide fuel for an enormous number of thorium reactors far into the future.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Sheep Creek reportedly has substantial amounts of hard-rock monazite that’s unusually low in thorium.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Now, here is monazite growing under Earth surface conditions (the same temperatures and pressures under which humans live).
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2025
• If the monazite contains 7 percent thorium, the plant would also be producing roughly 700 tonnes of thorium a year.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• The researchers found nanoscale monazite, a valuable mineral, crystallised within the tissues of an evergreen fern named Blechnum orientale.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
• In Australia, Canada, China, and South Africa, massive deposits of monazite take the form of veins of hard rock that run through mountains and calderas.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• The episode still haunts the rare-earths industry in Malaysia, where Lynas now processes monazite concentrate at the largest rare earths processing facility in the world.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Travel Pix/Alamy Within those grains, the monazite is relatively hard and chemically inert.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Nevertheless, major investment is now flowing to monazite mines and processing technologies.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• That’s because heavy mineral sands, which may contain roughly 2 percent or 3 percent monazite by weight, are not subject to the same import controls as concentrated monazite ore.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Most of the radioactive burden associated with processing monazite ore comes from substances produced during processing.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Energy Fuels is processing monazite into rare-earth oxides at its White Mesa Mill in southeastern Utah.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• The mineral growing in the plant is nano-size (that is, extremely small monazite particles which also happen to be an industrially significant rare-earth mineral).
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2025
• Vietnamese government restrictions on the export of monazite and bastnaesite have been in effect since 2022 and became law this past January.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• But the real twist here is that one of the largest, highest-grade monazite deposits in the world is just 800 kilometers from Saskatoon, near Alces Lake in Saskatchewan.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Most notable is the Lynas mine at Mount Weld, Australia, one of the world’s top monazite resources; the ore is processed at a sprawling facility in Malaysia.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Its monazite comes from the chemical company Chemours, which mines heavy mineral sands in Florida and Georgia to produce titanium and zirconium.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Chemours and Energy Fuels have agreements under which Chemours ships 500 tonnes of monazite annually to White Mesa Mill.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Energy Fuels is also negotiating or already has deals that would give it access to enormous reserves of monazite ore in Australia, Brazil, and Madagascar.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• The expansion, leveraging Australian monazite, will deliver key heavy rare earths like terbium and dysprosium by late 2027, while also producing uranium.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
• Typically, monazite forms geologically under high pressure and at temperatures of hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Nov. 2025
• So companies import the heavy mineral sands; separate out various profitable concentrates, including the monazite mineral concentrate; and then process the monazite concentrate to recover the rare-earths.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Perth, Australia–based Lynas Rare Earths, the largest rare-earths company outside of China, is expanding its monazite mining and processing operations.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• For example, largely because of the environmental disaster that is Weikuang Dam, the country doesn’t permit the development or operation of stand-alone monazite mines—that is, mines where nothing is mined except monazite ore.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• David McNew/Getty Images Several developments combined to shift rare-earths production from monazite to bastnaesite.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026