Imerys Usa, Inc.

US Ceramics LLC

Imerys Pigments, Inc.

Jondahl Davis

Robert J Pruett

Tonia Boutelle

Dustin Johnson

Trent Braswell

Bradley Richards

The present disclosure includes proppants and methods of making the proppants. The proppants herein may contain titanium dioxide, silicon dioxide, and/or aluminum dioxide. Also included in the present disclosure are methods of using the proppants to treat a reservoir.

Proppants and methods of making and use thereof

A method for obtaining rare earth element compositions may include providing a dispersed aqueous suspension of a particulate material including at least one rare earth element compound and kaolinite. The method may further include adding to the suspension a selective flocculation polymer that facilitates separation of at least a portion of the at least one rare earth element compound from the kaolinite by flocculating the kaolinite and allowing particles of the rare earth element compound to be or remain deflocculated. The method may also include allowing the suspension containing the polymer to separate in a selective flocculation separator into layers including a flocculated product layer and a deflocculated layer containing the portion of the at least one rare earth element compound. The method may further include extracting each of the separated layers from the separator. The rare earth element compound may include LaO, CeO, NdO, or YO.

Rare earth element compositions obtained from particulate material comprising kaolin and methods for obtaining such compositions

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