Lynas Advanced Materials Plant
Refining is the bottleneck in rare earths, and this is one of the few large refineries outside China.
- Material
- Rare earths
- Stage
- Processing plant
- Place
- Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia
- Operator
- Lynas Rare Earths
- Coordinates
- 3.97° N, 103.38° E (approximate)
Seen from orbit
- Heat
- 1 of the last 7 days and 4 of the last 30 had furnace-hot pixels within 6 km (NASA FIRMS).
- Radar
- Latest Sentinel-1 radar picture: 27 Oct 2026.
Signals show activity, not output. They are measured automatically and can be affected by weather, terrain and fires.
Facts
- Described as the world's largest rare-earth extraction plant outside China
- Target capacity 11,000 t of rare-earth oxides a year; operating since 2012
- Malaysia ordered its cracking and leaching operations stopped in 2023