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Posts from October 2009
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
October 29, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GWG)(PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) (GWMG or the Company) is pleased to announce that the next phase of exploration work is now in progress at its Benjamin River rare earth project in New Brunswick, Canada. Fugro Airborne Surveys Corp. completed a 1712 line-km helicopter-borne magnetic and radiometric survey
Continue reading "NEWS: Great Western Minerals Group Continues Work at Benjamin River" »
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Micheline Maynard, a senior business correspondent for The New York Times wrote the other day “If you wonder whether hybrid-electric vehicles will ever catch on, simply ask one of the millions of people who ride in them every day. Hybrid-electric buses, that is.” Apparently transit systems from New York to Taipei are adding hybrid buses at a
Continue reading "BLOG: While Hybrid Buses are becoming the norm… What’s an UltraCap Bus?" »
“Wind, Water and Solar technologies can provide 100 per cent of the world’s energy, eliminating all fossil fuels”... Now there’s a rather bold prophecy In their article in the November 2009 edition of Scientific American, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, outline such a scenario and its implications in advance of December’s upcoming Copenhagen Climate Conference at which
Continue reading "BLOG: A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables" »
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
October 27, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Quest Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:QUC) is pleased to announce that it has completed its previously-announced private placement by issuing an aggregate of 2,737,456 units to accredited investors at a price of $2.30 per unit, for aggregate gross proceeds to Quest of $6,296,148. Each unit is comprised of one common share and
Continue reading "NEWS: Quest Uranium Corporation Completes $6.3 Million Private Placement" »
October 27, 2009 (Source: Reuters) -Demand for lithium should ramp up over the next decade to produce the lithium-ion batteries needed to power the next generation of electric and electric hybrid vehicles. I think that the future of transportation and energy is in electrification and smart grids. For electrification to really take place, you need a number
Continue reading "MEDIA: Lithium outlook bright with auto electrification" »
October 26, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GWG)(PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) (GWMG or the Company) announced today that it has decided to reduce the size and terms of its offering of special warrants of the Company (Special Warrants) by way of private placement (the Offering), which was previously announced on October 15, 2009. The
Monday, October 26, 2009
October 26, 2009 (Source: Financial Times) - Japanese companies, urged on by their government, are racing to secure supplies of rare metals and rare earth elements that are vital to many technology products. By the end of the year Toshiba aims to agree a deal with Kazatomprom, the national uranium company of Kazakhstan, to extract rare metals
Continue reading "MEDIA: Toshiba targets rare metals deal in Kazakhstan" »
Saturday, October 24, 2009
As China prepares for the next round of United Nations Global Climate Change talks in Copenhagen scheduled for December 7th, one of the directors of Chinas National Economic Research Institute (NERI) has been speaking this week in Toronto. An article in the Financial Post dated October 23, 2009 describes some of theses talks. Of particular interest is
Continue reading "MEDIA: China Plans Major Climate Change and Cleantech Initiative" »
Friday, October 23, 2009
“Canada is China with resources, less 1.27 billion people than us (Americans)…fortunately for us…we need to recognize Canada’s resources.” – Jack Lifton, Chairman Critical Strategic Metals Conference in Washington, DC For starters I would like to thank Jack Lifton and the Infocast coordinators Lorelei Leslie and Sara Niss for inviting me to participate in the panel: Investment
October 19, 2009 (Source:Roll Call) - Clean energy technologies face a range of obstacles. The credit crunch has slowed capital investment, disputes have arisen over which lands are suitable for infrastructure, and the electric grid has sometimes proved incapable of handling new generation. Over the long run, however, our most difficult challenge may be our most fundamental:
Continue reading "MEDIA: Murkowski: Increase Domestic Production of Rare Earth Minerals" »
Thursday, October 22, 2009
October 22, 2009(Source: Marketwire)-- Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (“GWMG” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has engaged Barr Engineering Company (“Barr”) of Minneapolis Minnesota to update the 43-101 Technical Report for the Company’s Hoidas Lake Project. Barr is an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting company involved with the development, management, and restoration of natural
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
October 20, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Quest Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:QUC) announces that the closing of its previously-announced $7 million private placement is expected to be held on October 27, 2009. It is expected that the private placement will be fully subscribed. Quest also announces that the exercise price of the common share purchase warrants included in
The RareMetalBlog will be following the Critical Strategic Metals Conference in Washington, DC, and updating regularly with blogs and media. Supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link. Thousands of electronics, aerospace, military, automotive, cleantech and renewable energy technologies rely on a range of specialty metals for which there is often no substitute. The supply
Continue reading "Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical Metals & Strategic Metals" »
October 20, 2009 (Source: CNW) - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: RES) (Rare Element or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has engaged the services of some of the top technical professionals in their fields of expertise with Ore Reserves Engineering (resource estimation), John T. Boyd Company (mining engineering), Knight Piesold (geotechnical engineering), Mountain States
As I was sitting at the airport this morning, waiting to board my flight to Washington DC to attend the Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical Strategic Metals Conference for the next couple of days, I come across Ann Spence’s short piece in Ceramics Tech Weekly (Oct8th)… and had to share it with you. I occasionally receive
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Earlier this week, Clint Cox of The Anchor House, Inc. published Part 1 an interview with Mark Smith, CEO of Molycorp Minerals, LLC. It contains quite a bit of information on the history of Molycorp, which Im not sure was previously in the public domain. Particularly interesting is Mr. Smiths discussion on the formation of the current
Continue reading "BLOG: In-Depth Interview with Molycorp's Mark Smith" »
Friday, October 16, 2009
… and some of us thought that the Danes already had a lead in the wind turbine business and the Germans in solar power. In a press release out of Brussels on Oct 7th, “The European Commission has called upon public authorities, business, and researchers to join efforts in order to develop by 2020 the necessary technologies
Thursday, October 15, 2009
October 15, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (the Company or Avalon) (AVL:TSX; AVARF:OTCQX) announced today that the Company has hired Mr. David Swisher as Vice President, Operations to lead the advancement of its Nechalacho Rare Earth Element Project, Thor Lake, NWT through development to production. Mr. Swishers initial responsibilities will be to collaborate with
October 15, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) (GWMG or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an engagement letter (Engagement Letter) with Pope Company Ltd. (the Agent), to complete an offering of Special Warrants by way of private placement (the Offering). The Agent has been
October 15, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) --Quest Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:QUC) is pleased to report that additional assay results from diamond drilling of their B-Zone rare earth element (REE) deposit (see Press Release : September 23, 2009, Figure 1) continues to firm up the significant resource potential of the zone. Quest has now received strong REE drill assay
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
October 8, 2009 (Soure: The Economist) - China has cornered the market in some indispensable minerals WHAT do smart bombs, euro banknotes and headphones have in common? They all contain “rare earths”: 17 obscure chemical elements, sales of which add up to less than $2 billion each year. But without them, industries worth trillions of dollars would
According to Tina Casey, in her article to Gas2.0 titled Mystery Ceramic Could Lead to Cheaper, Stronger Hydrogen Cells(Oct12th), They dont know how it works, but it does. The it is... Barium-Zirconium-Cerium-Yttrium-Ytterbium Oxide... or as Casey has simplified it- BZCYYb. Okay, let metake a mini-step back. SOFCs -- Solid-oxide fuel cells -- generate an electrical current by
Continue reading "BLOG: REEs help lower the temperature of SOFCs" »
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
October 13, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:RES) (the Company) is pleased to announce the identification of an additional rare-earth-element (REE) target area approximately 1500 feet northwest of the Bull Hill Southwest deposit at the Bear Lodge project, Wyoming. The Company designates this area as the Whitetail Ridge rare-earths exploration target, and it
Continue reading "NEWS: Rare Element Identifies High-Potential Whitetail Ridge Rare-Earth Target" »
It seems that the resourcing, processing capability, relaibility and security of its rare earth supply chainhas reached the US Administrations rader screen, at least in one Branch. Mid last week, Oct 8th, Congress effectively approved the following text in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010... specifically, Section 843: Report on rare earth materials in
Continue reading "BLOG: US DoD to assess risks to its rare earth materials supply chain" »
Monday, October 12, 2009
The RareMetalBlog covers a broad range of dimensions related to rare metals… fromresource developments, their applications, related material science discoveries, the geopolitics of supply chain, and the players that bring them together. On occassions, it alsoprovidesupdates onrecent developments inproduction processing. This week’s Ceramic Tech Today (Oct 7th), the web-based Ceramics Materials, Applications and Business Blog of the
Continue reading "MEDIA: LANL’s high-temperature REE-enhanced superconducting tape" »
Saturday, October 10, 2009
There are some mornings when all one is interested in is a bit of trivia. This morning’squick notefalls into therecent rare earth applications – huh!!’ catagory. As reported on a number of sites, in this instance, quoted from a posting on Ixplora,com. “Mitsubishi Electric gained yet another entry in the Guinness World Records book with the recognition
Continue reading "BLOG: Mitsubishi installs world’s largest high-definition LED display" »
Friday, October 09, 2009
Dorothy Kosich, Deputy Editor and Americas Editor for Mineweb, posted the above-titled article this morning, to which it is difficult to challenge the opening premise --that while New technology applicationshave yet to be discoveredand that Although China now enjoys a global monopoly on rare earth metals and manufacturing systems, the USGS says plenty of global reserves and
October 8, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (GWMG or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) is pleased to announce the results of a recent trench sampling program at its 100%-owned Douglas River project in northern Saskatchewan. The work program focused on locating the original trenches on the property excavated by Saskatchewan Mining Development
October 8, 2009 (Source: Marketwire)-Quest Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:QUC) announces that it has signed an engagement letter with Pope Company Ltd. and MGI Securities Inc. to act as co-lead agents for a private placement by Quest of up to $7 million. Quest will issue up to 3,043,500 units at a price of $2.30 per unit. Each unit
Continue reading "NEWS: Quest Announces New $7 Million Private Placement" »
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Just as I started to get used to the TV terms – ‘ flat screens’, ‘plasma’, let alone ‘PVRing’, Several months ago, Samsungs first “Edge-lit LED LCD displays” hit stores. Insofar as customer or audience (how about government) reaction, some of you may know that the new format (more the branding of such) sparked a controversy in
Continue reading "BLOG: LEDs light up today’s televisions" »
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
October 7, 2009 (Source: Forbes) - America has a new dependency and it is not Middle East oil. It is instead several arcane metals known as rare earth elements (REE). I recently completed a due diligence trip to a new Discovery company of interest. Today I write on my experience with Avalon Rare Metals. Rare earth metals
Continue reading "MEDIA - The Rare Earth Metal's Shortage" »
I’m not one who generally seeks attention and Im certainlymore comfortable behind the scenes -- although my wife, kids and okay, a couple of friends may argue differently. They’ve misread me, of course. Seriously, I applaud the organizers of Magnetics 2010 and the magnet industry as a whole, for profiling the growing interest in,risks and solutions around,
Continue reading "BLOG: Magnetics 2010 --> Rare Earths and Magnets Clearly Connected" »
October 7, 2009 (Source: Canadian Business) - Few Canadians will admit to hankering for yttrium, terbium or dysprosium; fewer still could tell the differences between them. But among manufacturers that rely on these and other rare-earth metals to build everything from mobile phones to flat-screen televisions, they are vital. And so, when a draft report recently made
Continue reading "MEDIA: Rare-earth metals: The new China syndrome" »
While scientists, engineers and manufacturers continue to work to improve the efficiencies related to CIGS Solar technology, efficiencies related to both the conversion of light into electricity andproduction quality (initiatives that are a bit over my head at times), Dow Chemical is putting the technology into practice... which willeventually be over many of our heads. Seriously, Matt
Continue reading "BLOG: Dow sees huge market in CIGS solar shingles" »
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
October 10, 2009 (Source) - The primary owners of Colorado-based Molycorp are Goldman Sachs and the private equity firms Pegasus Partners and Resource Capital Funds. Goldman received $10 billion in bailout funds last October and has since paid the money back. But now Molycorp plans to combine $3 million in federal money with $20 million in private
Continue reading "MEDIA: Critics blast $3M mining handout" »
October 6, 2009 (source: The Northern Light) - An economic recession hasnt made Andy Flanagans job any easier but he feels hes on the right track. On Sept. 15, 2008, Mr. Flanagan was officially hired as the economic development officer for the Village of Belledune. It was a bit of a kick in the pants – the
Continue reading "MEDIA: Keeping an eye towards Belledune's future" »
Monday, October 05, 2009
October 3, 2009 (Source: The Times) - An obscure, desolate plateau on the southwestern shores of Greenland could transform the future of consumer technology and shift the balance of power in the global supply of rare earth metals. The treasure trove beneath the rocks and ice of the Ilimaussaq Intrusion represents the world’s largest known reserve of
Continue reading "MEDIA: Greenland challenge to Chinese over rare earth metals" »
October 5, 2009 (Source: CNW) - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: RES) (the Company) is pleased to announce that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire 100% of the Eden Lake Rare Earth Elements (REE) project from VMS Ventures Inc. (VMS ). VMS optioned the project in 2001 and has explored the project for REEs
Continue reading "NEWS: Rare Element acquires Eden Lake REE Project, to file Form 20F" »
October 2, 2009 (Source: Financial Source Editorial) - Rare earth elements (REEs) have been the mystery metals of the mining world for years. Now, suddenly, everyone’s heard about them. Before we delve into the reasons behind all the publicity, here’s the basic skinny on REEs: One, they are rare, at least sort of. Two, they are indispensable
Continue reading "MEDIA: Why All the Fuss over Rare Earths?" »
Friday, October 02, 2009
While in North America there is a sceptical view by many of the potential for widespread use of electric cars, in parts of the world where gasoline is expensive plans are moving ahead. Through our DealFlow television series (www.dealflowtv.com) we have seen plans for adoption of electric cars and infrastructure investment in both Denmark and Israel for
Continue reading "MEDIA: France Launches “Battle of the Electric Car”" »
Okay, okay, so maybe Im exaggerating just a little... but if the news from Japan today is anything to go by, perhaps were not far off. According to a report at TradingMarket.com, Japans Daikin Industries has teamed up with Professor Shigeo Morimoto from Osaka Prefecture University, to create an electric motor that produced high torque from hard
Continue reading "BLOG: The Beginning Of The End For Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Motors?" »
Thursday, October 01, 2009
September 30, 2009 (Source: Stockhouse) - Sandwiched in between next week’s New Orleans Investment Conference and last week’s Spokane Silver Summit, Cambridge House in Toronto provided evidence (a rarity among junior miners) about prospectors’ most promising trenches. Topic mentioned most at cocktail parties and on panels? Those streaking shares of rare-earth element companies (germanium, rubidium, dysprosium and
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