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RARE EARTH METALS
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Irish scientists discover how rare earth mineral is formed
December 17, 2020TCD scientists Adrienn Maria Szucs and Dr Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco whose research shows a new path to bastnäsite formation. Irish scientists have discovered how a…...
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Energy Fuels to begin rare earths processing in 2021
December 17, 2020Energy Fuels’ White mesa Mill. Image credit: Energy Fuels. US uranium mining company Energy Fuels announced that it has entered into a three-year supply arrangement…...
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New path to rare earth mineral formation has implications for green energy and smart tech
December 17, 2020IMAGE: FIRST AUTHOR ADRIENN MARIA SZUCS WITH PROFESSOR JUAN DIEGO RODRIGUEZ-BLANCO IN TRINITY’S MUSEUM BUILDING view more CREDIT: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Researchers from Trinity College ...
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Greenland Minerals chairman shows faith in rare earth strategy with on-market purchase
December 2, 2020The company is positioning itself to become a major international rare earth supplier as it approaches the development window at its Kvanefjeld Project. The Kvanefjeld…...
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China’s Southern Rare Earth ups Tb, Ho, Gd, Dy prices
December 1, 2020Chinese medium and heavy rare earths producer Southern Rare Earth has continued to raise its weekly prices for terbium, holmium, gadolinium and dysprosium, supported by…...
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The rare earths ‘basket problem’ is intensifying
December 1, 2020The transition to a green economy represents a major opportunity for rare earths demand in the coming decades, with so-called ‘magnet rare earths’ – especially…...
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China enforces new export controls, red letter day for rare earths
December 1, 2020New law means China now has a mechanism to further reduce rare earth exports; and prices of these mineral elements have continued to rise, while…...
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Export control law to affect rare earths, UAVs
November 30, 2020Measure provides deterrent in talks with US Rare earths are unloaded at a port in Southwest China’s Chongqing on May 9 Photo: IC A new…...
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New procedure will reduce the need for rare metals
November 30, 2020Researchers from Kanazawa University are working to improve the long-term sustainability of pharmaceutical and other chemical syntheses Kanazawa, Japan – Pharmaceuticals, plastics, and many othe...
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America and China’s Chess Match for the Future of Green Energy
November 29, 2020America is losing the race to green energy to China, and that’s bad news for us. Over the past two decades, China has quietly built…...
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Down to rare earth: Canada ignores China’s resource power grab at its own peril
November 27, 2020High-purity cesium-133 stored in argon WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Steven Fletcher was the member of Parliament for Charleswood-St. James-Assiniboia from 2004 to 2015 and Canada’s first permanently…...
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European coalition to secure access to 30 critical raw materials
November 27, 2020Cinovec lithium and tin project in the Czech Republic, expected to become the first EU producer of battery-grade lithium compounds. (Image courtesy of European Metals.) The…...
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Share Prices Rocket As The Rare Earth Rush Is Rebooted
November 27, 2020From the frozen hills of Greenland to the outback of Australia a rush has restarted for rare earths, a family of metals essential in electric…...
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RARE EARTH METALS – A SOLID 2020 INVESTMENT IN STABLE MARKETS
November 27, 2020There exists a good way of preserving your currency at times of financial crisis through making an investment rare earth metals. There will probably always…...
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Concerns about export restrictions drive up rare-earth prices
November 26, 2020A rare-earth mining operation in Baotou, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Photo: cnsphoto Chinese export control law that will take effect starting on December…...
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The Importance of Rare-Earth Elements Mining in America
November 26, 2020Here’s how the U.S. can get back on the right side of the Technochasm While science-fiction novelists have speculated about space mining for more than…...
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Rare earth dependency presents real opportunities for recyclers
November 25, 2020The need to close the loop on rare earth metals and a bigger role for the recycling industry in sourcing these key elements have been…...
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US-China rivalry: US invests US$12.7 million in rare earth producers to reduce reliance on China
November 24, 2020Bulk of funding goes to MP Materials, which owns the world’s largest rare earth mine outside China US has traditionally depended its strategic rival for…...
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Rare-Earth Elements: A National Security Crisis
November 24, 2020Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine “The Middle East has the oil, but China has the rare earths,” spoken by Deng Xiaoping, Supreme Leader of China,…...
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A US rare earths miner is staging a comeback to take on China
November 16, 2020The Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California’s Mojave desert has had its ups and downs through the years. Once the world’s largest producer of…...
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Critical minerals and the new geopolitics
November 12, 2020The climate crisis and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its breakthrough technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G networks, are setting the world on a…...
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Rare earth prices rise as markets wait for new export law
November 11, 2020The town of Baotou in Inner Mongolia is the hub of rare earth production in China, which dominates the global trade in the 17 rare…...
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A Rare-Earth Minerals Miner Is a Play on Electric Vehicles
November 11, 2020Raw ore is transported at the Mountain Pass mine in California, operated by MP Materials. Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg Another electric-vehicle-related SPAC merger is moving closer to fruition. The…...
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Joint Korean-Australian Project Targets China’s Rare Earth Control
November 9, 2020A joint South Korean-Australian mineral processing research project is showing potential to eat into China’s dominance of the high-value and strategically important rare earth industry.…...
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China dynamics offer rare earth opportunities
November 9, 2020Australian producers could benefit as the US looks to diversify where it sources this metal, used in anything from technology to healthcare. Even with Joe…...
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Tanzania Finalizing Permit For its First Rare-Earth Metals Mine
November 5, 2020Tanzania is in the final stages of approving a permit for the country’s first rare earths mine to Australian company Peak Resources Ltd. as the…...
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China’s September rare earth exports declined sharply by 43.9% on year
November 5, 2020China’s rare earth exports in September stood at 2,003.3 mt, down 43.9% from a year earlier. Rare earth export value in September stood at 130…...
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TikTok owner takes a bite of rare earths market
November 4, 2020Bytedance buys nugget producer as prices for key tech material surge TikTok parent company Bytedance has bought a rare earth company as it seeks to…...
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China’s crazy rare earth market returns
November 3, 2020Trading on China’s A-share market saw very active movement by “central government heavyweights” in the state-owned sector on Tuesday November 3, which was so positive…...
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Push for trading exchange to stabilise rare earth pricing in China
November 3, 2020The creation of various indexes and an exchange to stabilise prices and sales is being considered, key figures in the Chinese sector say As the…...
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China plans big expansion of rare earth business
October 23, 2020Country has seen a 76% year-on-year increase in new firms involved in the sector in Q4 2020 According to the company registration data, Inner Mongolia…...
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Global Rare Earths Elements in High-Tech Industries Report 2020
October 23, 2020This report analyzes applications and markets for rare earth materials, with particular emphasis on high-tech industries such as semiconductors, HDDs, LCDs, consumer products, and green…...
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China plays rare earths ‘Trump card’
October 22, 2020China has passed an export control law that seeks to punish US restrictions on the use of Chinese technology by choking American access to critical…...
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Securing the Critical Minerals Supply Chain
October 22, 2020The U.S. Department of Commerce (John Sonderman, https://flic.kr/p/T2dwAW; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/). From the military to the technology sector, various American ...
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Breakingviews – Rare earths
October 22, 2020RARE OPPORTUNITIES. Australian rare-earth producer Lynas enjoyed a recovery in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, despite and because of the virus. Easing Covid-19 restrictions…...
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China export control law highlights rare earth supply issues, say juniors
October 20, 2020China’s new export control law once again highlights the need to diversify supply of rare earth metals away from the world’s second largest economy, junior…...
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China strikes back? Could China put export bans on rare earth metals?
October 20, 2020A new export control law is expected tobecome law December 1st in China.“Because of the wide ambit of the law, China can also use it…...
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China passes export control law with potential for rare-earths ban
October 19, 2020Legislation empowers government to cast wide net on foreign companies. Containers wait to be shipped in China’s Dalian port. (Photo by Akira Kodaka) China’s top…...
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China plans global dominance of rare earths, versus rival USA
October 16, 2020But another race is also underway, to research and patent new rare earth applications, and that is a race China may be losing Excavators load…...
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Mkango Resources sets itself for rare earths upswing as EVs take off
October 15, 2020An investment at the project level from major commodities trader Talaxis is helping it along Mkango Resources Factsheet Mkango Resources Ltd’s (LON:MKA) Songwe Hill rare earth…...
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Time for transformation amid export slump
October 14, 2020China’s rare earth still needs an edge up in technology for high-end products A rare-earth mining operation in Baotou, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region…...
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China cuts rare earths exports by 43% in Sept, builds stockpile
October 14, 2020China’s Ministry of Commerce said the sharp drop was due to the coronavirus impact and ‘trade business based on changes in international market demand and…...
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Apple’s new iPhone 12 is made from recycled rare earth minerals
October 14, 2020View photos In this photo illustration the new iPhone12 Pro is seen displayed on an iPad screen. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/Sipa USA) Amid the fanfare of Apple’s…...
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Apple’s rare earth recycling steps up environmental response
October 13, 2020Apple said Tuesday its newest iPhones would be produced using recycled rare earth materials, as part of a stepped up environmental initiative which also has…...
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China’s rare earth still needs an edge up in technology for high-end products
October 13, 2020China is the world’s biggest supplier of rare-earth elements, the crucial component in an array of high tech and military applications. However, due to a…...
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Rare Earth Metals Get The Presidential Treatment
October 8, 2020Last Wednesday, the president signed an executive order addressing the threat posed by the United States’ overreliance on “critical minerals” from “foreign adversaries.” To be more specific,…...
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Countering China on rare earth minerals
October 8, 2020President Trump has signed an executive order aimed at countering China’s drive to corner the international market on rare earth minerals — key elements used in high-tech…...
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Battle for rare earths escalates as Pentagon gets involved
October 7, 2020China Central TV says the US government is ready to use a law from the 1950s to speed up domestic production of rare earths in…...
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Boris Johnson promises a UK offshore wind revolution – but China holds the monopoly on vital ‘rare earth’ metals
October 7, 2020It wasn’t so long ago that the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, said wind turbines “couldn’t pull the skin off a rice pudding”. He now seems to…...
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DOE awards US$1.95 million for critical minerals and rare earth elements
October 6, 2020The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy selected 13 projects to receive approximately US$1.95 million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs…...
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Why are the US and China competing for rare earth minerals?
October 6, 2020The little known minerals are used in nearly every industry and high-tech device, with China controlling more than 90 percent of the world’s production. Last…...
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The tech crisis that isn’t: China controls the world’s rare earth supply chains
October 2, 2020Is it a crisis when a country holds a commanding lead in supplying a critical global market successfully manages to avoid disrupting that market amid…...
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Trump issues new order to spur rare earths mining
October 1, 2020The directive, issued late Wednesday night, asks the Interior Department to explore using the 70-year-old Defense Production Act to speed up development of mines. (Image…...
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Trump orders increased mining of rare-earth minerals to counter China
October 1, 2020President Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency in the mining industry, ordering the Interior Department to increase domestic production of rare-earth materials to reduce&hell...
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‘Simply implausible’ for rare earths production to keep up, warns Adamas
September 30, 2020The current slow pace of rare earth development risks a huge mis-match in supply and forecast demand, wrote Adamas Research in a report released Monday.…...
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‘Astronomical’ rare earth demand growth forecast
September 29, 2020Research and advisory services firm Adamas Intelligence is forecasting “astronomical” demand growth for certain rare earth minerals in the 2030s and has said that the supply-side of…...
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Pensana Rare Earths awarded issue of equity
September 28, 2020Pensana Rare Earths Plc has announced that Fundo Soberano de Angola (FSDEA), the Angolan Sovereign Wealth Fund, has recently agreed to make a further equity…...
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Altona to raise £0.5m to fund rare earth elements strategy
September 24, 2020Mining exploration company Altona Energy said on Thursday that it is looking to raise up to £0.5m to fund its new rare earth element strategy. The AIM-traded…...
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China’s exports of vital rare earths drop 62%
September 24, 2020Reasons for this are not clear, but Beijing warned last year it would restrict supplies to the US because of the trade war; meanwhile a…...
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Capitalizing on Alberta’s mineral potential
September 23, 2020Alberta’s government has struck an expert panel to help the province diversify its economy and become a world leader in mineral resource production. The five-member…...
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US Department of Energy to provide $122m for research on rare earths
September 23, 2020The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced its plans to provide $122m in federal financing for ‘cost-shared’ research and development of rare earth elements…...
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DOE backs REE recovery from coal waste
September 22, 2020The US Department of Energy has granted up to US$1 million towards a Texas Mineral Resources (TMRC) project that aims to produce rare earth elements…...
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Stevie Barnett | Opportunity For Ja To Capitalise On Rare Earth Elements
September 22, 2020The world is in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is characterised by a range of new technologies that will fuse the physical,…...
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Mining Rare-Earth Elements from Fossilized Fish
September 21, 2020Strange as it might seem, a 2,500-square-kilometer zone south of one tiny Pacific island could supply four substances that are crucial to modern electronics for…...
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Indian-Pacific Quad working together to break Chinese monopoly on rare earth elements
September 18, 2020In a bid to break the Chinese monopoly on processing rare earth elements, the Indian-Pacific Quad comprising of India, Japan, Australia and the United States…...
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Ending China’s Chokehold on Rare-Earth Minerals
September 18, 2020The U.S. and allies can break Beijing’s monopoly on elements vital to electronics and national defense. China dominates the global market in rare-earth minerals, producing…...
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World’s development of rare earths on shaky ground as China tension grows
September 16, 2020Most of the world’s phones, cameras and electric cars are dependent on minerals that are currently exclusively processed in China. As the geopolitical tension between…...
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Mkango’s Malawi exploration unearths interesting rare earth elements
September 15, 2020Aim- and TSX-V-listed Malawi-focused rare earth element explorer Mkango Resources reports that the reconnaissance shallow soil sampling and auger programme at its Mchinji licence area…...
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Australia’s race against China’s ‘rare earths weapon’
September 14, 2020If you have a phone, a camera or an electric car, chances are that each of these devices is wholly dependent on key minerals that,…...
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The race to break China’s control of supplies of hi-tech metals is leading to Madagascar — and beyond
September 11, 2020A worker stokes pots containing the rare earth metal Lanthanum before he pours it into a mould near the town of Damao, located in China’s…...
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Why Europe, not Trump, should buy Greenland
September 9, 2020The island is not for sale, but targeted assistance to the mineral-rich territory could help the EU achieve strategic autonomy. The scramble for Greenland is…...
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Race is on for Indonesia’s untapped rare earths
September 9, 2020Tin mining tailings could contain commercial quantities of rare earths both US and China would be keen to tap. Rare earth, the experts like to…...
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Global Rare Earth Metal Market 2020-2024
September 7, 2020Technavio has been monitoring the global rare earth metal market size and it is poised to grow by USD 5.76 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at…...
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US rare-earth rise ‘wishful thinking’
September 6, 2020As the global trade system has been shattered by both the US-led anti-globalization drive and the COVID-19 pandemic, major rare-earth importers including the US are…...
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China’s rare-earth exports continue downward trend in August
September 6, 2020China in August exported 1,642 tons of rare-earth, data from Chinese Customs showed on Monday – a slight rebound from July’s 1,620 tons, but still…...
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Europe struggles to cut China reliance for rare earths
September 5, 2020The U.S. and Europe’s ambition to boost production of rare raw materials used in electric vehicles and reduce dependence on China will face obstacles, including…...
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China’s rare earth exports to the US could fall by a third
September 4, 2020Global demand drops 5 per cent this year amid coronavirus, analysts say. ‘As a major consumer of China’s lanthanum, the US oil refining industry is…...
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Lawmakers Seek to Curb U.S. Reliance on China for Rare Earths
September 1, 2020U.S. House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at reducing dependence on China for rare earths used in everything from electric vehicles to missiles to wind turbines.…...
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Will China-US dispute extend to rare earths?
August 26, 2020Editor’s Note: With China-US tensions continuing to rise, many speculate that China may leverage rare earths to countermand the United States’ moves. Will the China-US…...
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China’s Rare Earth Exports Fall to Over Five-Year Low as Pandemic Devastates Demand
August 26, 2020Rare earths, a collection of chemical elements, have broad applications and are crucial to many cutting-edge products, including phone components, electric-vehicle batteries and military equipment.&he...
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US $20 million research grant to explore supply options for rare earth element
August 25, 2020The US designated $20 million for basic research aimed at identifying a stable supply of so-called rare earths that are crucial for electronics embedded in…...
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Japan unearths rare metals essential for lithium-ion batteries off Pacific island
August 24, 2020The Yomiuri Shimbun A government agency dealing with natural resources has announced the successful excavation of rare metals including cobalt and nickel from the seabed of…...
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China’s flooding slams rare earth, fertilizer and other industries
August 24, 2020Economy recovering from coronavirus lockdowns now threatened by deluge SHANGHAI — Weeks of flooding along the Yangtze River, China’s longest waterway, has crippled commodity production,&he...
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Lynas signs Kalgoorlie rare earth processing facility sublease
August 24, 2020The sublease was signed for a 135-hectare industrial-zoned site on the Great Eastern Highway in the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Australia-based rare-earths mining company Lynas and…...
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China’s rare earth exports plunge 69.1% in July, disrupted by COVID-19
August 21, 2020China’s rare earth exports plunged 69.1 percent to 1,620 tonnes last month, disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, said the country’s commerce authority on Thursday. China…...
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Russia has $1.5bn plan to dent China’s rare earth dominance
August 14, 2020Russia plans investment of $1.5 billion in rare earth minerals, critical to the defence, telecommunications and renewable energy sectors, as it strives to become the…...
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Bold Action Needed to Solve Rare Earth Problem
August 11, 2020It happens about once a year here in Washington: a think tank or a group of concerned citizens holds an event centering on the rare…...
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U.S. finds its Chinese rare earth dependency hard to break
July 28, 2020LONDON — The U.S. Department of Defense has just committed funding for two rare earth separation plants on U.S. soil. It’s one small step towards…...
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First rare earth firm in decade to go public in $1.5 billion deal
July 16, 2020US rare earths miner MP Materials will go public in a $1.47 billion deal by merging with a private-equity backed blank-check company, underscoring Wall Street’s…...
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Japan to strengthen control over rare metal reserves
July 13, 2020In the wake of supply disruptions of certain metals caused by the covid-19 pandemic, Japan has decided to launch a series of measures to address…...
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US Vulnerable to China Rare-Earth Monopoly, Researchers Find
July 9, 2020The global pandemic has exposed the utter dependence of the U.S. and the world on China for critical equipment and raw materials. That’s especially the…...
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Uranium: A bull market is under way
July 8, 2020The growing uranium supply deficit, currently being accelerated by COVID-19 pandemic related production cuts, has seen the price for uranium skyrocket – making it the…...
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What is driving the uranium price higher?
July 2, 2020The price of uranium continues to climb, thanks to production cuts by major providers like Cameco (TSX:CCO) and Kazatomprom (LSE:KAP). It is becoming a more interesting market for…...
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Only mill in the US able to process uranium-rare earth ores open for business
June 29, 2020As the US pushes to dilute China’s monopoly and develop a domestic uranium-rare earth supply, Colorado-based Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR) is working towards being at the…...