# Terrafame launches pre-feasibility study for scandium recovery to strengthen Europe’s critical raw materials supply

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/terrafame-launches-pre-feasibility-study-for-scandium-recovery-to-strengthen-eur--a6b7701b-bb93-48fe-858e-ef0410677064

Original source: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/19052026/terrafame-launches-pre-feasibility-study-for-scandium-recovery-to-strengthen-europes-critical-raw-materials-supply/

Publisher: globalminingreview

Original announcement: 2026-05-19T09:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Terrafame

- Ticker: Unavailable

- Exchange: Unavailable

- Region: Finland

- Primary commodity: Scandium

- Secondary commodities: Nickel, Copper, Cobalt, Zinc, Uranium

- Document categories: Metallurgy, Other

- Extracted: 2026-08-20 22:58:41 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Terrafame has launched a pre-feasibility study to assess the recovery of scandium from its existing production processes in Sotkamo, Finland. The project aims to leverage a side stream from the current uranium recovery plant to establish a European source of this critical raw material.

Reasoning: The announcement of a pre-feasibility study to recover scandium from an existing side stream represents a strategic value-add to an existing operation.

- Positive factor: Leverages existing uranium recovery side stream

- Positive factor: Capital-efficient expansion of existing operations

- Positive factor: Potential to become sole European producer of scandium

- Positive factor: Addresses critical raw material supply security

- Negative factor: Project is still in pre-feasibility stage

Facts used in scoring: 0

## Classification and evidence

**Mill Route**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Processing via mill or concentrator \(CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation\).

Why it applies: The study focuses on recovering scandium from an existing uranium recovery plant side stream, implying a processing/mill-based approach.

Evidence · text

> leverage an existing side stream from Terrafame’s uranium recovery plant to recover scandium

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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