Police in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong announced on Tuesday that they have shut down nine rare earth mines operating illegally in Longchuan county over the past six months. According to a Xinhua news report, police in Heyuan ...
Tags: Guangdong Province, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy, Rare Earth Mines
China's People's Daily on Tuesday weighed in on the current stand-off with Japan over the Diaoyu islands – the Japanese calls them the Senkaku islands – and how it could affect the rare earth industry. The paper is the ...
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Silver Lake Resources and Integra Mining have lodged the Australian Federal Court approval of the scheme of arrangement between the two companies with the Australian Securities&Investments Commission. Last Friday,Silver Lake and Integra ...
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State-owned Indian Rare Earths Ltd. (IREL) has applied for approval from the Odisha (Orissa) state government for a rare earth exploration permit on a 2,500ha coastal land package at Bramhagiri in Puri district. The Atomic Minerals ...
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Weekly PV Highlights: The initial installation numbers for the week ending 16th December 2012 show 1,703 installations in that week compared to 1,557 for the week ending 9th December 2012. The weekly figure for 16th December is 9 per ...
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Hackers using a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) named Mirage have been engaged in a systematic cyber espionage campaign against a Canadian energy company, a large oil firm in the Philippines and several other entities since at least this April, ...
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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 ...
Tags: Rare earths, graphite, rare earth market, minerals
This month China will start forcing rare earth producers out of business if they don’t qualify for new value-added tax permits being allocated. It’s China’s latest bid to curb resource plundering, dangerous artisanal ...
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The Chinese government has halved the number of rare earth mining rights in the country pulling 65 permits in all, according to a report by ChinaDaily USA. In Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, 88 mining rights for rare earth were reduced to 44, ...
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The rare earths business isn't unlike a Formula One race, according to Carolyn Dennis, vice-president and senior analyst with Dundee Capital Markets. Companies are speeding to reach production and find strategic partners to grease the ...
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All dollar amounts stated below are in United States dollars. Third Quarter Ended March 31, 2012 Financial Highlights: The net loss for the third quarter ended March 31, 2012 totaled $5.3 million or $0.12 per share as compared to a net ...
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It is learned that Saudi-based group Al Tuwairqi Holding and its subsidiary company Tuwairqi Steel are to start their new plant in Pakistan from first week of January 2013. The new plant is based on the state-of-art technology DRI is also ...
Tags: Steel, Pakistan, steel consumption, Saudi-based group Al Tuwairqi Holding
With so many moving variables in the rare earth space, how can investors evaluate investment opportunities? Siddharth Rajeev of Fundamental Research Corp. finds his top prospects by zeroing in on a specific material and tracking its growth ...
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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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Shareholders of Canadian rare earths processor Neo Material Technologies Inc., unanimously approved the takeover bid by Molycorp on Thursday, creating the industry's first integrated mines-to-magnets supplier. Under the terms of the deal ...
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