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Friday, February 24, 2012
Readers of RareMetalBlog will be up-to-date on the developments of Lynas’ Malaysian rare earth processing facility. The quick summary is that earlier this month Lynas was granted approval of this facility by the Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) of Malaysia. The story was a nail-biter of sorts as analysts and reporters were expecting delays in this approval
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This morning I received an analyst report on Tantalus (Byron Capital Markets Ltd.) and an updated analyst report of Molycorp (Dahlman Rose). What we do with analyst reports here is we file them in our online REEWorld.com library. This is the same place where we have all of the latest corporate PPTs for many of the companies
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PM motors are the highest-efficiency ones available for elevator applications. Therefore, this high efficiency makes many PM gearless applications well suited for installation together with a line regeneration system. Such a system will provide the building owner further return on investment over time by returning energy generated during empty-car-up/full-load-down operation back to the main line to be
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Cerium at $US38/kg. Neodymium fetching $US145/kg. Dysprosium at $US1,800/kg. Since July, these represent declines of 75 per cent, 68 per cent and 51 per cent respectively. That’s the latest prices news out of Japan via the Nikkei news service. The commentary is that REE demand has been softening because of high prices last year (a theme that
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Northern Minerals, the Australian-based explorer, is a sponsor of RareMetalBlog. Let’s get that out there at the beginning: what follows is an independent view, and reported mainly because of the analyst’s views on the heavy rare earth scene ratherthan his detailed comments about the company. But David Rijkers at brokers DJ Carmichael in Perth has been following
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Day Two at the IQPC rare earths and strategic metals conference in Sydney. One surprise: there were two people there from Vale, the Brazilian mining giant. Why a surprise? Because the majors are meant not to be interested in the rare earths sector because (1) it’s too small, a slice of 120,000 tonnes a year being well
In the last several days we have seen various news stories claiming that Tellurium is a rare earth element (REE). When we saw that Discovery News posted a piece today titled Rare Earth Element Discovered In Ancient Stars, we decided to make a media correction. FACT: Tellurium is a rare element, but is not a rare earth
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Here we go again. According to Xinhua, China is planning a big expansion of its use of rare earthelements. If it happens, how long can China remain an exporter of REEs to the rest of the world? Worse, with Molycorp mainly specialising in light REEs, and Lynas still suffering from delays in Malaysia at their separation plant,
While advances in material science and energy efficiency are being made every day, it is relatively easy to forget about some of the simple day-to-day tips and tricks to make sure your most necessary gadget keeps going as long as you do. The latter quote was shared by Emily Price and the following article that originally appeared
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The international race for rare earth production outside of China is heating up again this time with Frontier Rare Earths (TSX: FRO) announcing their Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) results and how they will have the ability to produce rare earths by 2015. This means that Frontier would become one of the largest rare earth producers outside of
Forget anything you hear about declining interest in rare earths. I’ve just got back from the first day of IGPC’s second Rare Earths and Strategic Metals conference, nowbeing held in Sydney. The number of those attending has soared since the first conference last June, and has attracted a great range of speakers. Interest is growing. By the
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Industrial Revolution brought with it a number of technological advancements. Machine power allowed for fast developments and safety systems were introduced. In 1880, the first electric motor was used to power a lift. Led by ever growing needs in the industry, with the necessity of moving great amounts of raw materials, and the introduction of steel
Some of you are probably thinking what is Graeme talking about, writing 802.11 equals 50 billion in 2020, yet that’s what Cisco’s Chief Technology Officer predicted recently in London at their Cisco Live international conference timed to their sponsorship of the London Olympics. Specifically she predicted that there will be 50 billion mobile devices online by 2020,
Friday, February 17, 2012
“Our Surface Technologies business has seen strong growth as a global supplier to the advanced glass polishing segment. By joining with Baotou Jin Meng Rare Earth, we look forward to accelerating that growth through providing the fast-growing Chinese market with leading edge products,” said Jeffrey Edel, Global Business Director, Ferro Electronic Materials.Is there any point in trying
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
So, here’s the big question: is the non-China rare earth thrust going to be derailed, or at least delayed, by general financing problems? This issue arises after the thunderbolt today from Australia’s Arafura Resources. Five directors - including CEO Steve Ward - are departing, the company citing the stresses of the global financial crisis. However, this must
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As mentioned last week, heres another prompt from ScienceDaily.com...The search for materials showing large caloric effects close to room temperature has become a challenge in modern materials physics and it is expected that such a class of materials will provide a way to renew present cooling devices. Up to now, the most promising materials are giant magnetocaloric
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Last week at TMS 2012 in Toronto there was a lot of buzz about the investment made by the principal Chilean molybdenum miner, Molymet, on American re-startup rare earth mining venture, Molycorp. The questions being asked where mainly of the type “Why did Molymet make such a sizable-for its revenues-investment in a venture apparently not related to
Monday, February 13, 2012
It’s day #2 of my spring challenge. I’ve decided to give up dairy, yeast and coffee for 6 weeks. So far the only thing good about it was the cavalcade of amusing responses from Facebook...including my favorite response with: I’m good on most all of it, but if I give up coffee, someone will likely die. 2
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
The president of the Malaysian Bar association, Lim Chee Wee, said last week, it beggars belief that [the licensing board] could have adequately and properly considered the 1123 public comments within merely two working days.The only natural conclusion is that the whole public consultation process is a sham and charade, he said.All may not be plain sailing
Friday, February 10, 2012
Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO, President and Director, Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX: NEM) in his keynote and kick-off presentation for the Technology Metals Summit titled Shortages, Surpluses and Foggy Roller Coaster Rides; Dispatches from the Rare Earth Front Lines started: “Not all rare earth applications are growing at the same rate...” His presentation along with his PPT will
What to make of the latest spat over rare earth elements between China and Japan? The official in charge of the “Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries” doesn’t seem to be very friendly with Japan. But why would Japan’s media be reporting that there was a “signed mutual exchange agreement” if there wasn’t one? If
Thursday, February 09, 2012
The future supply of critical HREE’s such as dysprosium has been in the news lately with Japan talking about recycling and reduction efforts. Some fear that if Japan is successful in their efforts to reduce dysprosium use that it will cause a glut, and be bad for the entire industry. But 100% of dysprosium coming from China
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A big advance in battery electric vehicle history was announced yesterday as BEVs got to first and third place in Greencars.org Green Vehicle List, beating out Hondas Civic running on natural gas. While BEVs still suffer from perceived “range anxiety” and lack of charging points, this is slowly changing with each passing year. 2012 is the first
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012
As you`ll see over the next couple of articles, I have rediscovered the many wonders published on ScienceDaily.com. This site has a wide range of the latest advances in Energy Matter, Health Medicne, and more. One can quickly uncover all kinds of treats on the ScienceDaily site, like the recent development at Japan`s RIKEN Advanced Science Institute
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Is it a bad news day for the rare earth elements? First Robin posted on the news that Japan “ will offer a total of around 5 billion yen in subsidies for the development of technologies and other activities aimed at reducing the use of rare earth elements, amid concern over Chinas export restrictions on the minerals”.
We have another signal that the emerging non-China rare earth industry cannot be complacent. All the projects being developed by North American, Australian and other playershave their economics calculated on certain demand assumptions - one of those being the some heavy elements, particularly dysprosium, will be in deficit for the foreseeable future. So much for assumptions. Japan’s
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The world’s largest gathering of the most influential stakeholders – financier, investors, mining professionals, government officials, etc- in African mining will take place this February. By attending Investing in African Mining Indaba, you will join an international, powerful group of industry professionals that make Cape Town, South Africa their preferred destination to conduct important business and make
Monday, February 06, 2012
100 years ago the most popular kind of car was electric but they didn’t use REE’s. A Prius today uses 100g of the Heavy Rare Earth Element, (HREE) dysprosium. That might not seem like a lot, but 100% of dysprosium currently comes from China and that’s a lot of control. The possible availability of HREE’s outside of
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Gareth Hatch, of Illinois-based Technology Metals Research, has put as his latest estimate that there are 406 rare earth projects, owned by 251 different companies, in 36 countries. Well, he can add one more with a initial public offering now open in Australia for a start-up in Tanzania. Considering that we have only two non-China REE projects
The class action suit filed against Molycorp on Feb 3rd, regarding inaccurate reporting of their progress comes two days after Molymet invested USD $390 million in Molycorp. It was alleged in the lawsuit that during mid 2011, Molycorp exaggerated how soon their Mtn. Pass mine would be re-opened and supplying its customers. This resulted in the stock
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Inductive power transfer technology is safe, proven, and the same process that charges your electric toothbrush.For over 100 years, electrical devices around the world have been using inductive power transfer to generate electricity across an air gap. Coils create an electromagnetic field that can be converted into an electrical current once it crosses the gap. No electricity
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Without losers, where would the winners be? Casey Stengel. Germany’s Chancellor Merkel is in China promoting German-Chinese relations and leading a large German trade delegation hoping to win export orders for German manufacturers. Topping the list for Chancellor Merkel was to get China to contribute to the Eurozone’s bailout fund for Greece, and all the other tax
Friday, February 03, 2012
The Technology Metals Summit at The Hyatt Regency in Toronto Feb 1st and 2nd has wrapped up and it was a fascinating experience. Almost every mining company and would-be miner outside of China was there to find out what everyone else was up to and what they will be doing in the near future. Industry predictor Dudley
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Chevys Volt, which costs a little more than $39 000, will also be seen in far greater numbers. Production of the Volt, which last year totaled about 5000 cars, is slated to rise to 60 000 in 2012, with some being sold outside North America.As goes California so goes America, goes the old sage. As goes America
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Non-China, or rest of world (ROW), rare earths production is expected to increase tenfold between 2011 and 2016 - that is, from 6,000 tonnes a year to 60,000 tonnes. This will approximate ROW demand of 55,000 tonnes, within total global demand of 160,000 tonnes. That was the headline from Dudley Kingsnorth’s latest REE forecasts presented at the
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Regarding WTO members possible similar actions over Chinas rare earth policies, were ready to respond at any time in line with WTO rules and procedures, Li Chenggang, the head of the ministrys legal and treaty department, told Chinas official Xinhua news agency.China is ready to fight with America and Europe at the World Trade Organisation, if they
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The Technology Metals Summit taking place in Toronto as we speak was the news in REE’s earlier today, but the news now is that The Atomic Energy Licensing Board of Malaysia has granted a two year temporary operating license to Lynas on Feb 2nd. There are several conditions, but Lynas is almost completed their refinery, the largest
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Lynas has done it. But all the signs were there that it would. On Thursday morning, the Sydney-based company announced it had been granted its temporary operating licence in Malaysia for the Lynas advanced materials plant (LAMP). As reported here on January 24, under the headline “Lynas closes the deal - and signals Malaysian approval next month”,
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KUANTAN, Malaysia — The world’s largest refinery for rare earth metals has risen out of the red mud of a coastal swamp here and could soon obtain permission to operate — a step that would help break China’s near monopoly on rare earths but also worsen an emerging glut of some of these strategic minerals.Yesterday’s big news
Our friends at NBC Learn and the NBC Sports Group have done it again, this time teaming up with the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Science Foundation (NSF) to release Science of NHL Hockey, a 10-part video series that explore the science behind Canada’s favourite game. [I say “hook those kids to science early – although
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Yesterday’s World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling – holding that a range of China’s raw materials export policies violate its international trade obligations – has roiled the rare metals world and the rare earths sector in particular. While the WTO case, brought by the U.S., European Union and Mexico in mid-2009, involved nine industrial metals (bauxite, zinc, yellow
Philips’ SpeedStar luminaire, incorporating LEDGINE Greenline, was the perfect fit for this project, combining an innovative carbon neutral design with a long lifetime of 60,000 hours; signaling an end to the hassle and cost of regular maintenance. More specifically, this solution offers savings of up to £10,000 through reduced maintenance alone. SpeedStar also incorporates the easy-to-upgrade LEDGINE
Monday, January 30, 2012
The breaking news today is that the appeals panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that that China must dismantle its framework of export taxes and quotas for nine extensively used industrial materials. This could ultimately set a precedent for the West to challenge China’s restrictive export policies on other natural resources -- namely rare
Just be careful what you wish for. There may well be joy unconfined at the ruling by the World Trade Organisation that China must dismantle its system of export taxes and quotas for nine industrial metals - rare earths are not included in the ruling, but the implications are there for all to see. The metals that
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Pele Mountain has the opportunity to produce rare earth elements at the only mining camp in Canada that has produced REE’s before, potentially changing the community enormously. Their mine is in the works at Eco Ridge near Elliot Lake, ON. If they can produce soon, it would greatly alter the town. Elliot Lake was invented when uranium
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The Technology Metals Summit (Itinerary: Download TMS-Agenda-Jan 27VFinalV3) is only 2 days away and counting...the WTO story is just out in the NY Times and emails are flooding in with interest. I am trying to edit a piece for the kick off Wednesday AM before Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO, President and Director, Neo Material Technologies Inc. hits the
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Back on January 16th, Nanomarkets.net released their very detailed update on the latest research into improvements in the anodes and cathodes of Lithium batteries. At $2,495 a copy for up to 5 readers, my Scots rational instinct kicked in, and I declined buying a copy, following the update as best I could via the mainstream media. But
Friday, January 27, 2012
I just received the best email of the day with the title: Next Week in Balmy Toronto Written by the astoundingly clever and astute Byron King, Editor, Outstanding Investments and Energy Scarcity Investor for Agora Financial; he will be a guest on the Inside and Outside China, How will the Rare Earth Market Look in 2012? panel
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Quest Rare Minerals of Montreal reported their most recent drilling results on Marketwire Jan 12th 2012, satisfying their estimates of viable deposits at Strange Lake B-Zone in Northern Quebec. The Preliminary Economic Assessment report delivered in 2010 and the Revised Resource Estimate in April 2011 were validated by their summer drilling. Peter Cashin, Quests President CEO said
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Apart for being the monopoly supplier of rare earths and metals to the global economy, China is now the marginal economy that keeps the western economies healthy or sick. Yes I know that Europe seemingly has a death wish all of its own making, and its politicians are dithering dolts incapable of facing up to the reality
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