Magnetically sensitive sharks don't like samarium, neodymium, and praseodymium, according to a report by BBC on a company that is experimenting with rare earth elements to protect swimmers from getting bit. Eric Stroud, who runs Shark ...
Tags: Rare earth elements, Rare earth, magnets
China is restricting the export of rare earths to protect its environment, said Su Bo, vice-minister of industry and information technology at a news conference in Beijing on Wednesday. Su released a white paper, Situation and Policies of ...
Tags: Rare Earth, China, rare earth mining, rare earth products
Most Chinese takeovers in the resource sector do not pose a threat to national security, says the author of a new report on Chinese investment in Canada. Theodore Moran, a professor of international business at Georgetown University, says ...
Tags: resource sector, investment, Direct Investment, mining, oilsands
Resource nationalism is assuming more subtle forms as governments resort to measures outside of blatant asset expropriations to retain the benefits proffered by their geological bounties. In an interview with the Financial Times (paywall) ...
Tags: Resource Nationalism, geological bounties, oil, mining
Resource nationalism is one of the main causes of the current commodity prices instability and it is threatening global security, warns London-based Chatham House in its latest report. The think-tank highlights the effects of a recent ...
Tags: Resource, miners, resource asset, bauxite
By the close on Friday Molycorp (NYSE: MCP) was changing hands for $8.62, up $1.39 or 19.2%, after filings showed that insiders at the company has been stocking up on the counter. A number of executives made the most of the opportunity to ...
Tags: Molycorp explodes, rare earth producer, rare earth, Mountain Pass mine
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected industry groups’ request to put on hold mandates that force companies operating in extractive industries to disclose payments made to foreign governments. Led by the American ...
Tags: SEC, extractive industries, Petroleum, Oil
In lunchtime trade Molycorp was changing hands for $24.37, down $1.06 or 4%, in reaction to a downgrade and as investors continue to digest the company's results out last week. TheStreet Ratings downgraded the rare earth miner from hold ...
Tags: rare earth miner, rare earth, miner, Mountain Pass mine
BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – Mar 20, 2012) – REE International, Inc. (PINKSHEETS:?REEI) (the "Company"), a U.S.-based mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and production of rare earth elements, today ...
Tags: REE International, Rare Earth, mineral exploration company, mineral
Larsen & Toubro has secured new orders valued over INR 10.09 billion in the month of November and till date in December 2012. The buildings and factories business of L&T Construction has bagged new orders worth INR 8.52 billion for the ...
Tags: IT campus facility, minerals, steel, China, India
DECC has decided to reduce support for solar power under the Renewables Obligation from 2 ROCs today to 1.6 ROCs from April 2013 – a reduction of 20%. This is higher than the level of 1.5 ROCs which was initially proposed. The STA ...
Tags: STA, Association News, solar industry news, DECC
Northland Resources SA welcomes the decision by the Swedish parliament to initiate a study with the objective of constructing a rail line between Kaunisvaara and Svappavaara in northern Sweden. A rail line means cost efficient transports ...
Reportedly, Posco E&C gained an agreement worth US$400 million with Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a Vietnamese steel subsidiary of the Formosa Group Taiwan, to construct a facility that process materials for steel works. The new ...
Tags: Posco E&C, Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, steel works
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier K.K. (a subsidiary of Japanese energy business Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.) – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules - and Iberdrola Ingenieria & ...
Tags: Tokyo, energy, PV, Cerro Prieto project
Monax Mining has inked an Option to Purchase agreement with Falcon Minerals covering two tenements prospective for copper-gold in South Australia. The tenements adjoin three tenements already held by Monax’s wholly owned subsidiary, ...
Tags: Monax Mining, Falcon Minerals, copper, gold, Australia