# Israeli Tech Company Selectree Makes Initial Gains In Its Proprietary Rare Earth Seperation Process 2026 08 19

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/israeli-tech-company-selectree-makes-initial-gains-in-its-proprietary-rare-earth--d7a5df2c-c9a0-4283-b9b0-5d7c1becb051

Original source: https://www.miningweekly.com/article/israeli-tech-company-selectree-makes-initial-gains-in-its-proprietary-rare-earth-seperation-process-2026-08-19

Publisher: miningweekly

Original announcement: 2026-08-19T08:32:54.650Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

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Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: SelectREE

- Ticker: Unavailable

- Exchange: Unavailable

- Region: Israel

- Primary commodity: Rare earths

- Secondary commodities: None reported

- Document categories: Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-08-19 15:49:02 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Israeli technology company SelectREE has reported successful laboratory results using its proprietary electrochemical process to distinguish between individual rare earth elements. This development aims to provide a more modular and potentially less capital-intensive alternative to conventional solvent extraction methods.

Reasoning: The company has achieved a technical milestone by demonstrating repeatable electrochemical separation of four rare earth elements in a lab setting, providing a proof-of-concept for their proprietary technology.

- Positive factor: demonstrated element-specific electrochemical response

- Positive factor: repeatable laboratory results

- Positive factor: potential for modular/smaller footprint compared to solvent extraction

- Negative factor: results currently limited to laboratory scale

- Negative factor: has not yet been validated with real-world feed materials

Facts used in scoring: 1

## Classification and evidence

**Bench Scale Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Only preliminary bench tests completed — no locked-cycle or pilot work.

Why it applies: The results are explicitly described as laboratory work covering four elements over dozens of runs.

Evidence · text

> The company's laboratory work covered four elements over dozens of runs conducted over several weeks

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 1. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (1)

### electrochemical separation

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rare\_earths

#### Identity

- Commodity: rare\_earths

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: electrochemical separation
- Sample: laboratory work covering four elements over dozens of runs

#### Recovery

- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Successful demonstration of element-specific response in a lab environment.

- Positive factor: clear and repeatable element-specific electrochemical responses

- Negative factor: laboratory scale only

Evidence · text

> recorded in its latest laboratory results clear and repeatable element-specific electrochemical responses across its electrode systems

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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