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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Built in the late 1950s, the lake contains a highly toxic stew of industrial chemicals with substantial amounts of radioactive thorium, the latter resulting primarily from the processing of monazite ores for rare-earths.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Now, with industrialized nations in North America, Asia, and Europe spending billions to shore up their rare-earths supply chains, and counting on monazite to help them do it, China’s history and experiences with monazite offer important lessons.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Because of its radioactivity, concentrated monazite ore is classified as Class 7 dangerous cargo under the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code.
  — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2026
• Energy Fuels designed the expansion around expected feedstock from the Donald Project in Australia, which could begin producing monazite concentrate in 2028 following a final investment decision expected later this year.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 July 2026
• The $104 million expansion is deliberately sized to process monazite from the company’s Donald Project joint venture in Australia, expected to deliver 8,500 to 9,500 tons of concentrate per year starting in 2028, plus third-party feedstocks.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026