December 28, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -Avalon Rare Metals Inc.(TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide notice of the Companys upcoming shareholders meeting. Annual General Meeting The Company will hold its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) at 4:30 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012, at The Toronto Board of Trade, located at 1 First
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December 21, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) --Avalon Rare Metals Inc.(TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has retained SNC-Lavalin to complete the Feasibility Study (FS) for its Nechalacho rare earth elements project (the Project). Brian Chandler, Chief Operating Officer, commented, This is an important milestone for Avalon as we move into the
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December 6, 2011 (Source: ABN Newswire) -- In its ongoing efforts to provide you with broader communications and industry information, Avalon Rare Metals (TSE:AVL) is pleased to issue this Industry Bulletin, which reports on Avalons growing outreach initiatives to Canadian students and universities to build greater awareness of the rare earths business. These initiatives are in addition
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November 23, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) --Avalon Rare Metals Inc.(TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company has hired Mr. Mark Wiseman to fill the position of Vice President, Sustainability. In this position, Mr. Wiseman will be responsible for ensuring that Avalon delivers on all of its Corporate Social Responsibility obligations. Most importantly,
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November 9, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) announces that it is continuing to make steady progress towards defining the metallurgical process flowsheets for the Nechalacho heavy rare earths ore. Results are positive but progress has been slower than originally anticipated. This could result in a minor delay in
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October 20, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that following an expression of interest received from an international industrial minerals company, it has resumed work on its 100% owned Separation Rapids lithium minerals and Warren Township calcium feldspar projects. Avalon recently delivered bulk samples of
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September 30, 2011 -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX and NYSE-Amex: AVL) is pleased to issue this Industry Bulletin to share with our readers some perspectives on rare earth market trends presented at the recent Metal-PagesTM Minor Metals and Rare Earth Conference held in Beijing, China on September 13-17, 2011, and some perspective on other recent research
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September 27, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to report on the status of its three staff members and four visitors who were injured in the crash of the Arctic Sunwest Twin Otter floatplane in Yellowknife last week. All three staff members have now been discharged from
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September 23, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) confirms that three of its staff and four visitors were injured in the crash of Arctic Sunwests Twin Otter floatplane in Yellowknife on Thursday. The board of directors, management and staff of Avalon send their deepest condolences to the families of
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September 22, 2011 (Source: aptn.ca) -- The Twin Otter floatplane that crashed into Yellowknife’s Old Town neighbourhood Thursday killing two people and injuring seven was flying back from an exploration camp operated by a Toronto-based company, according to the company’s president. Avalon Rare Metals CEO Don Bubar said the two pilots flying the Arctic Sunwest charter aircraft
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September 8, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Richard Morland, B.Eng., to the Companys Board of Directors. Richard Morland is a mining engineer with 30 years experience in the mining industry in Australia and Canada. A native of Australia, he has
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August 3, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) announced today the closing of its previously announced public offering of 7,692,900 common shares, which includes 592,900 common shares issued pursuant to the partial exercise of the underwriters option to purchase up to 1,065,000 additional common shares at the applicable offering
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July 26, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) announced today that it has filed a preliminary prospectus supplement under its final base shelf prospectus dated May 4, 2011 with the securities regulators in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, other than Québec, and with the U.S. Securities
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July 11, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide a progress report on its rare metal product marketing initiatives as well as project permitting, metallurgy and diamond drilling programs on the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements deposit, Thor Lake, NWT, Canada. Product Marketing Avalon has now entered
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June 16, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has now entered into a Negotiation Agreement with the Lutsel Ke Dene First Nation (Lutsel Ke) regarding the development of the Nechalacho rare earth elements deposit, Thor Lake, NWT (the Project). This Negotiation Agreement is
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June 7, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce the following two new senior executive appointments to the Companys management team. Brian Chandler, P. Eng., Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Brian Chandler is a Professional Engineer who brings over 30 years cumulative international experience
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May 5, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:LLC) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has filed a final base shelf prospectus (the Prospectus) with the securities commissions in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, except Quebec, and a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange
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April 25, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has filed a preliminary base shelf prospectus (the Prospectus) with the securities commissions in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, except Quebec, and a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange
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Toronto, ON -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX and NYSE-Amex : AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide an update its progress on the Nechalacho deposit, Northwest Territories, Canada.METALLURGICAL TESTWORKAvalon is continuing to conduct metallurgical testwork toward proving its proposed process for concentration of the Nechalacho ore minerals. This process is designed to produce rare
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March 5, 2011 (Source: ABN Newswire) -- Avalon Rare Metals is pleased to invite shareholders and other interested delegates to the 2011 PDAC International Convention, Trade Show and Investor Exchange, Toronto, ON, March 6 - 9, 2011 with the following list of all the exhibits, events, and speaking engagements featuring Avalon management and staff: Investors Exchange -
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Mackie Research Capital Corporation announced this week it is initiating coverage of Avalon Rare Metals Inc. The brokerage has slapped a Buy rating on the stock and a target price of $10.50 a share. Here are some key quotes from the report:
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February 14, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) --Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that, further to its Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders held on January 27, 2011 at which the shareholders of the Company voted in favour of, among matters, the continuance of the Company out of the Province of
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NEWS: Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP, Feb. 11), announced a $180 million offering of 5.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock by the Company. Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (TSX.V:GWG, Feb. 9) (OTCQX:GWMGF) announced it has appointed Mohamed Madhi as President of Rare Earths Extraction Company Limited effective immediately. Mr. Madhi served as a member of GWMGs Advisory Board and
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February 8, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) --Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that, following the signing of the Negotiation Agreement with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (News Release No. 10-27 December 8, 2010), Avalon has now entered into a similar agreement with the Deninu Kue First Nation (Deninu Kue) regarding
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One of the key objectives of RMApps is to help capture the imaginations of and toinvite students, recent graduates and the general public as the case may be, to the world of rare metals and their contribution to new CleanTech applications. To more fully appreciate the advances in these rapidly expanding areasand what makes them possible, is
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Jan. 27, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) - Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(NYSE Amex:AVL) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide an update on development work on the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements (REE) deposit, Thor Lake, NWT. In particular, all the data from the 2010 summer definition drilling program has now been compiled into the deposit block model
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January 21, 2011 (Source: ABN Newswire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc.will be presenting at the Critical Metals Investment Symposium on Saturday at 1:45PM. This symposium will bring together a multitude of parties involved in finding solutions to the developing world supply shortage of rare earth elements and other strategic metals.The Vancouver Resource Investment Conference January 23 and
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I just listened to a 12-minute radio broadcast on NPR… Ira Flatow’s Science Friday, and it immediately captured my interest. Flatow was interviewing Dr. Ray Baughman, the director of the NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas, on his team’s work on creating nanoscale yarns that function as superconductors, batteries or solar cells. Dr. Baughman
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Material Science … “the unsung branch of science, the cross roads of biology, chemistry and physics”, at least according to New York Times technology reporter David Pogue. I agree and I’m pumped already. I just received a copy of yesterday’s Press Release giving us all a heads up to the four-part series, to be broadcast on you
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Carrying on with last week’s theme of year-end Top This - Top That Lists (and thanks to a good friend of mine’s referral), I was captivated walking through the National Academy of Engineering’s Top Twenty Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century. While perusing the website (www.greatachievements.org), I couldn’t help but wonder what growing role rare metals played
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Im delighted to report that RareMetalApps (or RMApps for short), a new Avalon- RareMetalBlog initiative, will be launched before the end of this month… that is, January twenty-eleven. It will not only post technology-related rare metal content articles, touching upon energy, medical, materials, lighting, electronics and the growing number of other applications, but it will encourage and
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It has become a tradition at yearend or at the start of a new one to make lists…the ‘Top 10 This’, the ‘Top 20 That’, and predictions of the future. IBM, one of the world’s iconic companies, in no different. Based on a survey of 3,000 IBM scientists and as it reported in itsNext Five in Five,
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January 4, 2011 (Source: Reuters) -- The Toronto-listed shares of Avalon Rare Metals (AVL.TO: Quote) were more than 31 percent higher on Tuesday as they played catch-up with the NYSE Amex shares of the company, an explorer for rare earth metals.The stock rose as high as C$8.14 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, before falling back to C$7.37.
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“When most people think of the Periodic Table, they remember a chart hanging on the front wall of their high school chemistry class, an asymmetric expanse of columns and rows looming over one of the teachers shoulders.” When I mention the Periodic Table to audiences when I speak about rare metals, I generally get either bold or
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December 29, 2010 (Source: Nasdaq) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (AVL.TO) was up around 40%, but off a new year high of $6.77 hit earlier today. More than 3.8 million AVL shares have traded on Wednesday. The gains for AVL come amid reports that China, which produces about 97% of the global supply of rare earth minerals,
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December 21, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that its common shares have been authorized for listing on the NYSE Amex (NYSE Amex) in New York. The shares will begin trading on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 under the ticker symbol AVL. The Company will retain its
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December 20, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that effective today the Company is included in Standard Poors Canadian Index Operations (SP Indices) SP-TSX Global Mining Index and also the SP-TSX Base Metals Index. SP Indices, a part of McGraw-Hill Financial, is the worlds leading index
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December 8, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Negotiation Agreement with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation (Yellowknives) regarding the Nechalacho rare earth elements deposit located at Thor Lake, 100 kilometres southeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (the Project). This form of
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November 30, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide the following corporate update. NYSE Amex Listing Application The Company has applied for and received approval from NYSE Regulation on behalf of NYSE Amex LLC, to file an Original Listing Application to list its common shares on the
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November 30, 2010 (Source: MetalMiner) -- The “Rare Earth Metal Scare” if we can agree to call it that, has lit a fire under some Japanese global corporations when it comes to securing raw material supply. The ‘alleged’ rare earth export ban from China has put at least two Asian countries in high gear to kick-start a
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November 16, 2010 -- Toronto, ON(Source: MarketWire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide the following progress report on its 2010 work programs on the East Kemptville tin-indium project, Yarmouth Co., NS. These programs involved 1) continuing evaluation of the development potential of historical tin resources on the Companys Special
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November 12, 2010 -- Toronto, ON(Source: ABNnewswire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (OTCQX:AVARF) is pleased to release the following industry bulletin about Niobium as another rare metal that can contribute to energy efficiency.While the rare earths continue to generate most of the headlines these days, we thought we would share some information about another rare metal
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“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” -- Albert Einstein Preparing research and market analysis for theCritical Rare Metals Summitin DC this week, and specifically for thepanel on Equity and Investment Banking Perspectives some impressive conclusions stood out that I
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October 21, 2010 -- TORONTO, ONTARIO (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (the Company or Avalon) (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) announces that further to the Companys news release dated August 18, 2010, SNC-Lavalin Inc. (SNC-Lavalin) has delivered the scoping study commissioned by the Company to provide an initial estimate of costs for the construction of a new rare earth
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October 19, 2010 -- Toronto, ON (Source: MarketWire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) continues to strengthen its technical expertise with new appointments to its Technical Advisory Committee and Operations team. These additions will assist the Company in advancing its Nechalacho rare earth element (REE) deposit, Thor Lake, NWT through to production. Harry
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October 5, 2010 -- TORONTO, ONTARIO (Source: Marketwire) -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (the Company or Avalon) (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) announced today that it has raised an additional $9,618,762 from the exercise of eligible share purchase warrants and broker warrants issued as part of the financing completed in September 2009. On August 17, 2010, the Company announced a time-limited
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September 30, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario (Marketwire) - Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (the Company) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced short form prospectus offering pursuant to which the Company has issued 9,240,000 units at a price of Cdn$3.25 per Unit to raise aggregate gross proceeds of Cdn$30,030,000 (the Offering). Each unit
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