Bucky Balls and other novelty desk toys made from rare earth metals face a looming ban by the US government due to consumer safety concerns. Gizmodo reports that Bucky Balls and Zen Magnets, popular office trinkets which are essentially ...
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Chris Berry, founder of Mountain Partners asset management company, provided an interesting summary of the graphite space while speaking at the recent Graphite Express Conference in Vancouver. The conference featured a keynote address ...
In a supply risk index of chemical elements that are of economic value, four elements placed ahead of rare earth metals. British Geological Survey compiled the elements in a risk list published in 2011. Antimony, tungsten, mercury and ...
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Equity investing is squarely in a risk-off phase and few sectors have been hit harder than junior mining. Rare earth elements equities are no exception, but most of the materials themselves have not dropped nearly as much. The Critical ...
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In a move to curb the rampant domestic illegal mining of rare earth, as well as to regulate its rare earths players, China launched on Sunday its industry association for the precious metal commodity, as MINING.com anticipated last week. ...
Rare Element Resources (TSX:RES)(NYSE Amex:REE) added 2.6% in after hours trade on Thursday after releasing a revised pre-feasibility study at Bear Lodge with improved economics. The company announced several changes to the study for the ...
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Molycorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP), one of the only non-Chinese producers of rare earths, has sued the engineering company responsible for designing the chemical processes at its troubled Project Phoenix for over $45 million in damages. The rare ...
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In mid-day trade on Monday Molycorp was changing hands for $10.06, up 2.2%, recovering from a brutal Friday when the rare earth miner was beaten down 11.8% – it was also one of the most actively traded stocks on the NYSE – ...
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The USA's largest rare earth producer Molycorp (NYSE:MCP) is mounting a credible challenge to Chinese rare earth dominance by dramatically scaling up output and potentially increasing its global market share to 30% from 4% at present. ...
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NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire -04/06/12)- Rare earth metalshave been a hot topic in the news recently. The increasingly high prices and supply constraints have forced the US, along with Europe and Japan, to file a complaint against China ...
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By the close on Friday Molycorp was changing hands for $11.49, down $4.58 or more than 28% as investors digested the company's Q2 results that saw the company swing into a loss in the second quarter on the back of higher costs, lower sales ...
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Molycorp, the company in the process of expanding and modernizing a mine and processing plant closed down in 2002, this week announced the sequential start-up of its Project Phoenix rare earth manufacturing facility. Mining at Molycorp's ...
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RareMetalBlog reports the Russian government has begun creating the conditions needed for an active resumption of rare earth production- the rationale being increased domestic demand for high-tech industry and the spectre of more export ...
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Stans Energy Corp (TSX-V: HRE) added more than 10% on Wednesday after announcing the successful separation of dysprosium oxide at its Kashka plant in Kyrgyzstan ahead of schedule. The company said 50kg of the heavy rare earth dysprosium ...
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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 ...
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