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 ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, USA
Hitachi has built an 11-kilowatt motor that uses no rare earth materials. The motor took four years to develop, and commercial production is expected in two years. Manufacturing firms in Japan were spurred to find alternatives to rare ...
Tags: Asia, China, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
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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Malaysia's Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) has postponed granting a temporary rare earths mine operating license (TOL) to Australian miner Lynas Corp. (ASX:LYC) until an outstanding appeal by residents to the science, technology and ...
Tags: Rare Earths, Momentary, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Australian analysts from Foster Stockbroking say confidence in rare earths miner Lynas Corporation (ASX:LYC) is returning after the Malaysian High Court dismissed an appeal against the company's Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP). In a ...
Tags: Lynas, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy, Operations
The volume of rare earth minerals legally exported from China for the first half of 2012 plunged by 42.7% year-on-year to hit 4,908 tonnes according to statistics from China's customs authorities. According to the US edition of the China ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is ...
Tags: China, Canada, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
Barely two weeks after Lynas (ASX:LYC) began production at its Malaysian processing plant in the face of protests and after a protracted legal battle, the Australian rare earths miner is once again in crisis. The company's shares – ...
Tags: Lynas, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
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
Resource developers, especially in the rare earths space, are suffering from the market's obsession with immediate results, says Byron King, writer and editor for Agora Financial's Outstanding Investmentsand Energy & Scarcity Investor ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral Energy, Rare Earth
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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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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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 ...
Tags: Rare earth mining, Rare earth, mining, artisanal mining