In a move to curb the rampant domestic illegal mining of rare earth, as well as regulate its rare earths players, China is launching an industry association for the precious metal commodity on April 8. According to The China Post, the ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, Rare Earth Elements, Rare Earths
IDG News Service - Following Intel's lead, contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), is investing A!838 million (US$1 billion) in Netherlands tools maker ASML to speed up the development of faster and more ...
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On Thursday Australia's Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC) won the latest of a series of long-dragged legal battles against activists, which took the company to court for allegedly causing major health and environmental damages to the Malaysian ...
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IDG News Service - Lenovo's ThinkPad team plans to release more ultrabook models, and remains "bullish" about the upcoming release of Microsoft's Windows 8, according to company executives, who also said on Monday that the famed PC unit ...
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The High Court of Malaysia today rejected Australian miner Lynas Corp’s (ASX:LYC) application for an injunction against pressure groups that oppose the company’s rare earth plant (LAMP),informs The Malaysian Insider. ...
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Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in the north of China, has shut down nearly 900 coal mines and 2,000 other mines as part of a 7-year effort to better manage resources, protect the environment and curb illegal resource extraction. ...
Tags: China, Coal, Inner Mongolia, Rare Earth
Infoworld - OpenStack, the open source "cloud operating system," has stirred community excitement and attracted a vendor following, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Red Hat. But until now one thing has been lacking: A high-profile ...
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Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corporation(ASX:LYC), has filed a defamation action against Malaysian protestors and opponents over their criticism of the company's rare earth plant (LAMP), which will process ores shipped from Western ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
Big Data is not a new phenomenon and has been around for many years, noted Jim Goodnight, CEO at SAS, who spoke recently at the SAS High Performance Analytics Conference in Hong Kong. He described how companies have always been aware of ...
Rare earth production throughout China – responsible for more than 90% of the world's output – has slowed due to weak downstream demand with output in Guangdong province particularly depressed. China Daily reports ...
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China's strangehold on the global supply of rare earth metals is shaking up diplomatic and trade ties in Asia as rival economies seek alternative sources of the key industrial materials. World Politics Review (paywall) reports that ...
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Ailing economic growth in China is beginning to take a toll on miners and suppliers in the United States. Dwindling exports to the Middle Kingdom across a swathe of US industries would appear to strongly substantiate reports that the ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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Chinese enterprises are turning to "urban mining" to satisfy the country's voracious appetite for metals, recycling the contents of abandoned household appliances and electronic devices. The China Daily reports that a total of 56 ...
Chinese authorities have added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance on the top of the 10,546 tonnes it had already allocated to 11 state-sanctioned miners this year. It is something of a meaningless exercise because during the ...
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