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Posts from December 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
We have hear and read a lot about the use of rare earths... but they tend toalways be in reference to traditionally masculine-type applications -- cars, electronics, motors, even the new Dyson hand-held vacuum cleaners. But being more of a ‘girly-girl’, I wondered what about more female-friendly REE applications -- besides the LED light anti-wrinkle treatments Ian
Continue reading "BLOG: The Feminine Side of Rare Earths…" »
I just returned from a holiday with family in New Orleans, and in particular, enjoyed catching the legendary Dr. John at the House of Blues performing one of my all-time favourites “Right Time, Wrong Place”. Congratulations, if you invested in the rare metal, rare earth industry sector this year, you would have experienced being in the right
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Towards the end of December 2009, Foreign Policy magazine published an article on its Web site from the author John Lee, titled How China Stiffed The World in Copenhagen. The piece focuses on the latter days of the negotiations that took place in Copenhagen earlier in the month, primarily between China and the USA, on a plan
Continue reading "Chinese Rare Earths Industry Data: "Trust, But Verify" - But How?" »
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
The December 25, 2009 edition of The New York Times carried an article by Keith Bradsher entitled Earth-Friendly Elements, Mined Destructively . It is worth reading in its entirety by clicking the link above; it covers many of the topics posts on this blog have reviewed this year.The last few paragraphs of the article are copied below
Continue reading "MEDIA: Heavy Rare Earth Elements - Supply and Demand" »
When the DealFlow team was preparing for the Copenhagen episode we decided to visit Georg Jensen’s silver smithy. Georg Jensen has been handcrafting silver jewelery and tableware for generations and it is one of the globally recognized brands that Denmark is famous for. I had to ask how this would fit into the Rare Metals story this
Continue reading "BLOG: Rare Earth Elements and Jewelery – Georg Jensen in Copenhagen" »
Well, it’s that time of the year again -- Top Ten lists on any subject you can imagine … Top Ten Movies, Top Ten political events, Top Ten business deals, Top Ten songs... you name it. There are also a slew ofpredictions for the upcoming year... and the ‘Top Ten CleanTech predictions for 2010’ is no exception.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Well, they’ve almost done it... made a TV screen that effectively looks as if it were painted on the wall. Well, not quite, but as hdtvorg.co.uk reported on December 22nd, “While most manufacturers have long since run out of superlatives to describe the depth of their screens, LG, the Korean-based electronic giant, has come up with Extreme
Continue reading "BLOG: LG introduce the world's slimmest LED-based LCD TV" »
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The year 2009 will surely be remembered as the year the rare metals suddenly emerged as mainstream mineral commodities and our early positioning in the rare metals business some 12 years ago was finally rewarded with increased market recognition and higher market valuations. While the 12 months ended August 31, 2009 will be remembered by most for
December 23, 2009 (Source: Marketwire)- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL, OTCQX:AVARF) (“Avalon” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Mr. Hari Panday, C.G.A., B.A., has been nominated for election to the Company’s Board of Directors at the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (“AGM”). The 2010 AGM will be held in Toronto at the Sheraton Centre
Monday, December 21, 2009
December 20, 2009 (Source: NewsPost Online) - Researchers from Leeds’ Faculty of Engineering have discovered how to recover significant quantities of rare-earth oxides, present in titanium dioxide minerals. The rare-earth oxides, which are indispensable for the manufacture of wind turbines, energy-efficient lighting, and hybrid and electric cars, are extracted or reclaimed simply and cheaply from the waste
Continue reading "MEDIA: Scientists discover method to recover rare earth materials" »
When I hear of the rare metal element gallium, my first thought is of GIGS photovoltaic panels. There are of coursea mulitiude of other uses (e.g.LEDs, electronics, etc). When I hear of the rare metal indium, my first thoughts are againof CIGS solar, immediatly followed by solders and semiconductors. But last week over lunch, a colleague of
Continue reading "BLOG: Gallium and Indium Creates New Breed of Antennas" »
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Congratulations. If you read WaterCooler Confessions, today you will get a real holiday present: how to secure the information to really need to make money in the junior exploration and mining industry. As you know, unless someone is listening, no one is buying. Every day I listen to people who invest and make money. And yes, there
Continue reading "BLOG: The Top 10 Newsletter Writers in Exploration and Mining for 2009." »
December 17, 2009 (Source: Marketwire)- Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (GWMG or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) is pleased to announce that it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus with respect to the distribution of 9,861,374 common shares (Common Shares) in the capital of the Corporation (Special Warrant Shares) and 4,482,443 Common Share purchase warrants
Continue reading "NEWS: Great Western Minerals Group Announces Filing of Preliminary Prospectus" »
December 17, 2009 (Source: PR Newswire) - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:RES) is pleased to announce rare-earth-element (REE) assay results from the first five holes of the 2009 core drilling program completed on the Companys 100% owned Bear Lodge property located in northeastern Wyoming, USA. All five holes were drilled into the Bull Hill Southwest target, where
Continue reading "NEWS: Rare Element Reports Initial 2009 Rare-Earths Drilling Results" »
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
As many of us have experienced, and as has been illustrated in numerous articles posted on the RMB since it was launched just about a a year ago, advances in new technologiescontinues to accelerate and in some cases, before one technology is fully established, there is a disruptive technology soon behind it. Mike Martin’s article in the
Continue reading "Media: Third-Generation Solar Cells 'Could' Work Better, Cost Less " »
December 16, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - HUDSON RESOURCES INC. (Hudson) (TSX VENTURE:HUD) is pleased to report that all of the holders of the Companys common share purchase warrants, representing 5,305,000 warrants exercisable into common shares at $0.30 per share, have exercised their warrants. As a result, $1,591,500 has been added to Hudsons treasury increasing working capital to
Continue reading "NEWS: Hudson Confirms $1.6M Raised by Exercise of Warrants" »
December 15, 2009 (Source: Science Centric) - Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, according to Penn State researchers. These cerium-containing phosphate glasses have many commercial applications for use in windows, sunglasses and solar cells.
Continue reading "MEDIA: Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass" »
As I’ve commented on numerous occasions, LED lighted technology and their applications are advancing at an incredible pace, including for use in traffic lights. But as I’ve also noted, the multiplicity of design and operating parametresalso implies that are no simple solution. As Michael Graham Richard, of Ottawa noted on the treehugger.com website on Dec 14th, “LED
Continue reading "BLOG: Energy-Saving LED Traffic Lights Potentially Dangerous in Snow Storms" »
December 16, 2009 (Source: ASX) - Rare earths project developer Arafura Resources has appointed current non-executive director and Cristal Global executive Dr Stephen Ward as its new managing director. Dr Ward has extensive management and board experience in the chemical, mining and minerals processing industries, both in Australia and internationally. He has an intimate knowledge of Arafura
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
December 15, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (GWMG or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) is pleased to provide an update on its activities geared to implementing its unique Mine-to-Market strategy to become a fully integrated global supplier of rare earth elements (REE) and other strategic metals products. Great Western Minerals Group, like
Continue reading "NEWS: Great Western Minerals Group Provides Corporate Update" »
Feature Article in Winter 2009 Magnetics Business Technology Magazine by Ian London: It really doesnt matter what business, technical or news journal you peruse these days; you are bound to come across several articles on rare earths or the technologies that the rare earths make possible. Hybrid and pure electric vehicles are expected to drive the Green
December 15, 2009 (Source: Bioscience Technology) - Fierce competition over raw materials for new green technologies could become a thing of the past, thanks to a discovery by scientists from the University of Leeds. Researchers from Leeds Faculty of Engineering have discovered how to recover significant quantities of rare-earth oxides, present in titanium dioxide minerals. The rare-earth
Continue reading "MEDIA: Valuable rare-earth raw materials extracted from industrial waste stream" »
Friday, December 11, 2009
December 9, 2009 (Source: The Times) - The Japanese Government is working on a “growth blueprint” that would exploit the prolonged weakness of the US dollar and mount a state-backed resource grab for rare technology metals around the world. If the plans, which are in their early stages, come to fruition, the Government would assist companies in
Continue reading "MEDIA: Government ready to back business in minerals race" »
Thursday, December 10, 2009
I’m scheduled to speak at the Phosphor Global Summit 2010 in San Diego in mid-March, on the specific topic of the growing demand for and delicate supply balanceof rare earths. While most projections anticipate the aggregate demand and supply of the rare earths are ‘reasonably’ balanced over the next couple of years, several of the 16 elements
Continue reading "BLOG: New Green Phosphor Resists High Temp" »
December 9, 2009 (Source: Resource IntelligenceTV) - Of the many aspects of a rare earth deposit vital to its success, John Kaiser of Kaiser Bottom Fish Online argues that there are three deal breakers. These three things, when assessing the quality of potential resource investments in the smoking hot rare earth sector, should be meticulously scrutinized. In
Continue reading "MEDIA: Rare Earth Interview with Analyst John Kaiser" »
December 10, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Quest Uranium Corporation (TSX VENTURE:QUC) is pleased to report that assay results from the remaining diamond drilling of their B-Zone rare earth element (REE) deposit (see Press Release : November 12, 2009, Figure 1) has fully-confirmed the significant resource potential of the zone . Quests drilling has now returned strong REE
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
December 9, 2009 (Source: UPI) - Chinas monopoly on rare earth minerals, essential for green technologies, may not keep up with increasing demand. While China has 53 percent of the worlds rare earth deposits, it provides about 95 percent of the worlds supply. In the last 10 years, a 40,000-ton per year global market for rare earth
Continue reading "MEDIA: China's monopoly on 'green' minerals" »
December 7, 2009 (Source: HardAssetInvestor) - Tom Vulcan, rare earth metals contributor to HardAssetsInvestor.com, recently had an opportunity to chat with Constantine Karayannopoulos, CEO of Neo Material Technologies, Inc. (NEM). The Toronto-based international engineered materials company is one of only three rare earth producers in the world that are neither Chinese nor Japanese. This summer, NEM acquired
Continue reading "MEDIA: Constantine Karayannopoulos: The Road Ahead For Rare Earths " »
Several weeks ago (Nov 9th), I shared a piece titled “Researchers see the light on a new generation of LED lamps” in which I described some of the work being done by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Gallium Nitride. Well, I really didn’t have to cross the pond to find a group of scientists and engineers
Continue reading "BLOG: GaN nanomaterials… Mais oui, we just need to look next door" »
The Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change kicked-off in Denmark’s capital city on Monday, and it will certainly present some interesting theatrics, and hopefully some clear direction. Several weeks ago, after the G20 meeting as I recall, there seemed to be a lot of backpedalling and downplaying of expectations by the country leaders ... with suggestions that ‘well,
Continue reading "BLOG: U.S. EPA finally declares “Greenhouse gases are a health risk’" »
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
December 7, 2009 (Source: Channel 4 News) - Could a shortage of mud and minerals, essential to low carbon technologies, curtail the worlds plans for a green future? The key to a low carbon future is not negotiations in Copenhagen but mud and minerals in China. All low carbon technologies, from wind turbines to electric cars and
Continue reading "MEDIA: 'Rare earth' shortage threatens green revolution" »
Monday, December 07, 2009
December 6, 2009 (Source: TimesOnline) - Just outside the heavily polluted industrial city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia, surrounded by smokestacks, lies a lake with no name. At this time of year the lake bed freezes into waves of solid mud. In summer, locals say, it oozes a viscous, red liquid. It is a “tailing lake”, where toxic
Continue reading "MEDIA: Chinese pay toxic price for a green world" »
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Earlier today I was in attendance at an Obligatory Social Event involving small children, birthday cakes and associated sugar-induced mayhem. As I sought some respite from the proceedings in a hallway, I started chatting to a fellow escapee and before you could say Coco the Clown, our conversation meandered to the subject of off-shoring to China, and
Continue reading "Chinese Rare Earth Production: A Darker Shade Of Green?" »
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Ucilia Wang wrote in her posting to GreenTech Medias Green Lighton December 2nd ... “A few years back, manufacturers of crystalline silicon solar cells competed fiercely with chipmakers for polysilicon, leading to a big jump in the materials price and a scramble by polysilicon producers to build new factories.Something similar is happening for other materials coveted by
Continue reading "MEDIA: Strong Demand, High Pricing for Tellurium, Indium" »
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
December 2, 2009 (Source: UPI) - Japanese astronomers using the Suzaku orbiting X-ray observatory say they have discovered the largest known reservoir of rare metals in the universe. The satellite, jointly operated by the Japanese and U.S. space agencies, detected the elements chromium and manganese while observing the central region of the Perseus galaxy cluster. Scientists said
Continue reading "MEDIA: Suzaku X-ray observatory finds rare metals" »
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
December 1, 2009 (Source: Marketwire) - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (Rare Element) (TSX VENTURE:RES) and Medallion Resources Ltd. (Medallion) (TSX VENTURE:MDL) announce that they have signed a letter of intent whereby Rare Element will grant to Medallion an option (Option) to earn a 65% interest in a joint venture to explore the Eden Lake rare-earth-element property, Manitoba,
Continue reading "NEWS: Rare Element Options Eden Lake Rare-Earth Property to Medallion" »
December 1, 2009 (Source: CNW) - Neo Material Technologies Inc. (TSX: NEM) (the Company or Neo) announced today that it has appointed Gary E. German to its Board of Directors effective immediately. This appointment increases the total number of directors to seven, six of whom are considered to be independent. Gary E. German, a resident of Canada,
As we’ve discussed on this RMB forum, and as we read in the papers or see on our TV screens (every day), developing better and cheaper clean energy technology is central to the battle against climate change, for energy independence and creating a green energy energy jobs. While corporations, entrepreneursand academiaare taking initiative and making significant strides,
Continue reading "BLOG: CleanTech’s Rising Tigers, Sleeping Giant " »
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