IDG News Service-Is Sprint preparing a bid for prepaid wireless carrier MetroPCS?Whatever the rumors and whatever the company's plans,its chief financial officer didn't offer any clues when speaking Wednesday morning at a conference in ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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Klaus-Günter Vennemann, CEO of General Lighting at Osram Osram has signed an agreement with Townsend Ventures LLC to acquire Encelium Technologies. Encelium, which Osram held a 15 per cent stake in, is a software technology ...
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New Finnish Design Scenarios – A Story about what Happened in the Future will be held in the Meatpacking District in May 2011 during the 24th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City. SCENARIOS will offer an ...
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A succession of 'top-down' initiatives to improve public services have been general, time consuming and unnecessarily expensive and disruptive according to Colin Coulson-Thomas author of a new report Transforming Public Services on better ...
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A Malaysian court dismissed an appeal against a temporary operating licence for Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC), an Australian rare earth miner, despite residents' opposition over alleged radioactive hazards, Channel New Asia reports. The decision ...
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What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New ...
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Junior miner Matamec Explorations, currently developing the Kipawa rare earths project in western Quebec, Canada, said on Monday it had started a pilot plant to enable the continuous processing of ore samples. The Montreal-based company ...
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After months of polemic and legal battles, Australian rare earths miner, Lynas (ASX:LYC), has finally begun production at its Malaysian processing plant following a recent court triumph. The company said Friday that the first rare-earth ...
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Amur Minerals Corporation the nickel copper sulphide exploration and resource development company focused on the far east of Russia, is pleased to provide an update on the Kun-Manie mining licence application. This follows communications ...
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Comparisons are useful in evaluating a company, but in the rare earth market, it's not as simple as a spreadsheet. With so many variables in the mix, no two projects are exactly alike, and each has its relative strengths and weaknesses. But ...
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The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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Xinhua reported that small scale chrome miners in Zimbabwe have failed to set up a single smelter, almost two years after the government banned exports of raw chrome to encourage value addition to the mineral resource. Mines and Mining ...
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14 National LED Lighting Industry Bases In China "National Semiconductor Lighting Project" Sponsored By MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology ) 14 LED lighting industry bases have been built in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Dalian, Nanchang, ...
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BNamericas reported that unionized workers at the BHP Billiton controlled Escondida copper mine in northern Chile's region II are doubtful about the prospect of reaching a favorable agreement with management as part of the early collective ...
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