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Though hydrometallurgy plays a key role in these recovery processes, some drawbacks (apparent or not) of these processes (including the use of aggressive mineral acids, harmful extractants, and diluents, etc.) have led to the development of an environmental friendship subclass named solvometallurgy, in which non-aqueous solvents substituted to the aqueous media of the hydrometallurgical processing. Together with ionic liquids (ILs), the non-aqueous solvents chosen for these usages are the chemicals known as deep eutectic solvents (DEEs). The utilization of DEEs included the leaching of REEs from the different sources containing them and also in the separation-purification steps necessary for yielding these elements, normally oxides or salts, in the most purified form. 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