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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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January 31, 2012 (Source: ABC) -- RareEarthIndustry A company drilling for rare earths in north east Western Australia says the industry is rapidly developing. Kimberley Rare Earths has a project in the Cummins Range, and plans to be a niche supplier of two light rare earths, cerium and lanthanum. Both are used in glass polishing and high
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
The Malaysian government says Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC) has applied for a temporary licence to operate a rare earth refinery in the south-east Asian nation.
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
December 29, 2011 (Source: Resource Stock Digest) -- Interview Chris Porter and Sid Rajeev
Thursday, November 10, 2011
November 10th, 2011 (Source: The Australian) -- A previous holder of exploration licences at Lynass Kangankunde rare earths deposit in the southern African nation of Malawi is disputing the lapse of their rights to the site, Lynas said. Lynas has recently received correspondence on behalf of a party claiming that, in 2003, the government of Malawi acted
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Monday, October 31, 2011
October 31, 2011 (Source: WSJ) -- Colorado Rare Earths Inc. announced that the company has changed its name to U.S. Rare Earths Inc. (UREE) following its July agreement to buy the so-named closely held miner. The Lonoke, Ark.-based companys acquisition boosted its holdings of potential rare earth element-bearing properties to more than 12,000 acres of claims in
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October 31, 2011 (Source: SMH) -- Lynas Corporation says slight delays at its controversial Malaysian refinery will not affect its plans to supply rare earths to customers by the first half of next year. The company said the processing of rare-earth ore at the plant would now begin early next year, a delay of a month or
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Friday, October 28, 2011
October 28th 2011 (Source: MRW) -- A European Commission (EC) research team has said the WEEE directive should be rewritten to encourage more recovery of critical and rare metals. A study published by the Joint Research Centre Institute for Energy and Transport (JRC-IET) found that due to projected demand there would be a “bottleneck” in the supply
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
October 20, 2011, Beijing (Source: ft.com) -- There’s a popular get-rich-quick story in the town of Ganzhou, the rare earths capital of southern China: buy rare earths, and hold. Though the strategy has lined pockets in Ganzhou for years, it is now being tested by a precipitous drop in prices for rare earths, 17 elements used in
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October 20, 2011 (Source: Reuters) -- Molycorp is accelerating the start-up of its new rare earth processing facility in California, a move that will increase capital costs for the Mountain Pass project by $114 million, the company said on Thursday. * Early start up to boost 2012 production by 3,500 tonnes * Acceleration to cost additional $114
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
October 19, 2011, Sydney (Source: ft.com) -- When Nick Curtis was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, there was one topic that political and corporate chiefs wanted him to address. How could the world guarantee a steady supply of rare earths, the 17 elements crucial for many of the electronics used in everyday
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
October 18, 2011 (Source: Australian Mining) -- Lynas Corporation has denied claims from Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh that ore from its Mount Weld project in Western Australia will be shipped to Malaysia by the end of October. For the full document, click here.
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October 18, 2011 (Source: Bloomberg) -- Rare-earth mineral producer Molycorp Inc. said Monday it has signed a three-year labor contract with the United Steelworkers union. The company said the contract, signed six months before a deadline the parties had agreed to, will help ensure the smooth startup of a new processing facility in Mountain Pass, Calif. Terms
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
October 12, 2011 (Source: Gold Report) -- The rare earth sector has seen astronomical gains in recent years as Chinese export restrictions, short-sighted U.S. policy and investor interest combined to make front page news. In this exclusive article forThe Critical Metals Report,Chris Berry, founder and president of House Mountain Partners, LLC, argues that a Great Reset is
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Monday, September 26, 2011
September 26, 2011 (Source: China Daily) -- The local governments of three regions where most of Chinas light rare earth metals exist will jointly crack down on the illegal exploration and production of light rare earths, the Ministry of Land and Resources said in a statement on its website. The operation aims to promote the protection and
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Listen to this interview with Ellis Martin and the Senior Vice-President of Project Development for Texas Rare Earth Resources Anthony Garcia. Mr. Garcia's history with Newmont Minng and how it shall be applied to TRER's Round Top Project in Hudspeth County, Texas is reviewed as well as the benefits of infrastructure in place as compared to other
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September 19th, 2011, Vancouver (Source: IBC Advanced Alloys) -- IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. has withdrawn its recently announced planned short-form prospectus financing. [Please go HERE for a Youtube.com presentation by IBC Advanced Alloys CEO Anthony Dutton.] This decision was taken by the Company and its investment banking advisors, Euro Pacific Canada Inc., who believe that any financing
Friday, September 16, 2011
September 16, 2011 (Source: wsj.com) -- U.S. rare-earth minerMolycorpInc. said Friday that it has mutually agreed withSumitomoCorp. to cancel a potential investment from the Japanese trading house, saying the financing is no longer needed. Sumitomo last year agreed to make a $100 million equity investment, while also providing Molycorp with $30 million of low-interest financing in exchange
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September 16, 2011, Beijing (Source: China Daily) -- Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Holding Co, the nations biggest rare earths producer, said on Thursday that short supplies of these valuable minerals represent an irreversible trend, a comment that could spark market speculation of further price rises. China has no intention of remaining the worlds major supplier
September 16, 2011, Beijing (Source: www.nytimes.com) -- In the name of fighting pollution,Chinahas sent the price ofcompact fluorescent light bulbssoaring in the United States. By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers ofrare earthmetals — which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products — China is temporarily shutting down most of the industry and
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September 16, 2011, Nairobi (Source: Reuters) -- Canadian-based minerals and metals firm Pacific Wildcat Resources said it had established potential reserves of niobium and rare earth at its Kenyan mining project near the port city of Mombasa. Significant niobium and rare earth oxide (REO) mineralisation were encountered in five diamond drilling holes at its site at Mrima
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Thursday, September 15, 2011
September 15, 2011, Windhoek (Source: Reuters) --The European Union wants more clarity from Beijing on increased export quotas for rare earth minerals from dominant producer China in meetings next month and December, Europes trade chief said. EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht told Reuters late on Tuesday that Brussels was insisting on higher quotas of the minerals
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
September 14, 2011, London (Source: Reuters) -- The UK government said the stockpiling of strategic and rare earth metals is undesirable and incompatible with its free-market approach to economic policy. In a letter to the Science and Technology Committee published on Wednesday, the government said: The (European Union) Commission needs to remain vigilant to avoid protectionist responses,
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September 14, 2011 (Source: Reuters) -- The European Union wants more clarity from Beijing on increased export quotas for rare earth minerals from dominant producer China in meetings next month and December, Europes trade chief said.EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht told Reuters late on Tuesday that Brussels was insisting on higher quotas of the minerals that
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
September 13, 2011 (Source: BBC News) -- The relative risks to the supply of some of Earths rarest elements have been detailed in a new list published by the British Geological Survey (BGS).So-called technology metals like indium and niobium are extracted from the Earth and are used in a wide range of modern digital devices and green
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September 13, 2011 (Source: Newelectronics) -- There are 17 rare earth elements, all vital to the electronics industry in some form. Yet, despite their name, some rare earth elements are relatively plentiful: cerium is, apparently, as abundant as copper. They are regarded as rare because deposits of these elements are generally not exploitable commercially.Though typically used in
Monday, September 12, 2011
September 12, 2011 (Source: UKPA) -- A risk list of 52 economically valuable elements which could soon be in short supply has been published by the British Geological Survey. The list ranks elements according to a risk factor based on their abundance, accessibility and where they are produced. It includes metals and rare earth elements found in
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September 12, 2011, London (Metal-Pages) -- Australian rare earth miner Lynas today published a complete set of assay results for the extension drilling programme completed on the western side of the Central Lanthanide Deposit and the current open pit at Mount Weld in the June quarter.The drilling programme, comprising 154 holes over 9,604 metres of drilling, is
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
September 10, 2011 Johannesburg (Source: Mineweb.com) -- The big talking point with regard to China and rare earths recently has centred around the limitation of rare earth exports and further regulations to crack down on illegal mining activity in Southern China. Since 2005, the quota has dropped 120.42% from 66,531 tonnes, to this years quota of 30,184.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
September 10, 2011 (Source: Google) -- Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems is the first volume of its kind entirely focused on the geochemistry of the lanthanide series elements in groundwater/aquifer environments. Consisting of ten chapters, each of which is an original, peer-reviewed contribution by some of the leading researchers in the study of the low-temperature
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September 10, 2011, Beijing (Source: Metal-Pages) -- China’s central government will help finance the development of a rare earth high-tech manufacturing sector, an official from Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said during an advanced materials exposition held in the northeastern city of Harbin.The official said that MIIT, the Ministry of Finance, National Development and Reform
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September 9, 2011, Johannesburg (Source: miningweekly.com) -- Dutch tulip mania – tulpengekte – is considered to be the first recorded speculative bubble in the global economy. The tulip was introduced to the Netherlands in 1593 by Flemish botanistCharles de l’Écluse, who apparently received it from a Turkish ambassador. As the popularity of the flower grew, so did
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Friday, September 09, 2011
September 9, 2011 (Source: Financial Post) -- The rare earth industry had a quietly dreadful summer, as prices have plunged about 25% (on average) since mid-July, and many equities have fared even worse. But recent reports suggest that prices have bottomed and are starting to move up, Scotia Capital analyst Mark Neville wrote, and he sees more
September 9, 2011 (Source: Tokyo Times) -- Experts and officials from Japan, the European Union and the United States will meet at the beginning of October to discuss on how to reduce their countries’ need to use raw materials that currently China is limiting access to. The announcement was made by an U.S. official, who added that
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
September 8, 2011, Harbin, China (Source:SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX News Network) --Chinese authorities will issue a catalogue to guide rare earth projects within this year, sources said at the China International New Material Industry Expo that just opened in Harbin, northeast China. At that time, the high-end rare earth RD and application field will greatly
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
September 7, 2011 (Source: Discovery News) -- Your wedding ring, the gold chain around your neck… even the platinum in your catalytic converter. For all of these you can thank a slew of meteorites that pelted Earth around 3.9 billion years ago, says new research. An artists impression of the Earth during the period of meteorite bombardment
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September 7, 2011, Tokyo (Source: Metal-Pages) -- Over the last week, Japan’s media has first reported that Hitachi Metals would be moving some of its operations to China, and then backtracked after announcements from the company that nothing had yet been decided.In an interview with Metal Pages, however, a representative of the company explained that the high
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September 7, 2011 (Source: Industrial Minerals) --Australia’s Lynas Corp. today played down concerns about shipping rare earths from its mine at Mt Weld in Western Australia and maintained that the project is on track for first production before the end of this year. The rare earths will be shipped from Mt Weld through the port of Fremantle.
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September 6, 2011, Washington (Source: MarketWatch) -- The Obama administration continues to explore ways to pressure China to ease restrictions on exports of rare earths, a U.S. trade official said Tuesday. We are looking very carefully in working on the rare-earths issue in a variety of contexts, said Tim Reif, general counsel at the United States Trade
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September 7, 2011 (Source: Reuters) --China told Japanese business leaders that it hoped their companies would bring technology to develop rare-earth products to China, while standing by its controversial decision to limit the metals exports, Japanese media reported. China produces more than 95 percent of the worlds rare earth metals and its efforts to bring the sector
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
September 6, 2011 (Source: Shanghai Daily) -- CHINA will soon unveil the 12th Five-Year Plan for the development of the countrys advanced materials industry, according to Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei. The text of the plan, which covers the 2011-2015 period, has been completed, Miao said in a speech at the opening of an
September 06, 2011 (Source: Forbes) -- After decades of distraction, policymakers and pundits have finally begun to focus on the decline of America’s manufacturing sector. The extraordinary reaction to Steve Denning’s August series at Forbes.com explaining why Amazon doesn’t make Kindle e-readers in America is just the latest evidence that people are getting worried about U.S. industrial
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September 6, 2011,Sillamae, Estonia(Source: Reuters) -- The European Union is considering stockpiling rare earth mixed carbonate as major producerChinaintroduces quotas and restricts global supply, top European rare earths producer Molycorp Silmet said. Western rare earth suppliers have been scrambling to boost production to plug a supply gap created last year when No. 1 producer China sharply cut
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September 5, 2011 (Source: oilprice.com) -- China is currently responsible for more than 90 percent of the worlds rare-earth production, and some analysts allege that China is using its de facto monopoly to lure a high tech companies to China. U.S. Magnetic Materials Association president Ed Richardson said, Were all losing. They (the Chinese) are using their
Monday, September 05, 2011
September 5, 2011 (Source:Shanghaidaily.com) -- Eastern Ganzhou city has ordered three rare earth mines to halt production by year-end, according tolocal mining authorities. The city issued a notice telling three of its eight major rareearth producing counties to halt production by the end of thisyear, said Li Guoqing, director of the citys mining management bureau, on Monday.
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September 4, 2011 (Source: Forbes Magazine) -- Yesterday, thePittsburgh Tribune-Reviewreportedthat Hitachi Metals denied it was shifting a fifth of its production of high-power magnets to China in 2013. The move, first reported by the Nikkei news service, was said to have been prompted by the need to assure the supply of rare earth minerals. “Nothing has been
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