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Posts from March 2010
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
As reported by Robert Evans (Reuters) yesterday March 30th, “Physicists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, creating thousands of mini-Big Bangs like the primeval explosion that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago. Apparently, scientists and engineers in control rooms across the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva
Continue reading "BLOG: Mini-Big Bangs created … Thanks in part to rare metals" »
It seems that ‘Diamonds may be more than just a girl’s best friend” Furthermore, it may not be a matter of how many carats the stone is… it may actually be the smaller the better. And while diamonds aren’t considered a rare metal (theyre carbon-based as you know), researchers at Northwestern University have reported a study it
Continue reading "BLOG: Nanodiamond-Gd complex - a super contrast agent for MRIs " »
“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves” -- Rachel Carson Many senior professionals from the rare metals, rare earths and critical metals industry have consistently commented that the first company outside of China to produce and have a processing plant will score the touchdown.
Continue reading "BLOG: The RareMetalBlog NFL: Touchdown – LYNAS Corporation?" »
March 30, 2010 (Source: ProActive Investors.com)--Fundamentals for rare metals such as lithium have been improving on the back of rising demand for them from emerging economic giants such as China. Exploration efforts to develop rare metal resources have accelerated and mining companies are scrambling to acquire rare metal assets. Successful acquisition of those assets bode well for
Continue reading "NEWS: Fieldex Exploration adds more Rare Earth Metals Projects" »
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
News from Molycorp that its Mountain Pass mine may contain 200 million tons of rare earth metals kicked of the week last week at RareMetalBlog. The company plans to delineate the existence and extent of various rare earth-bearing mineral deposits that exist outside the current mining area.On the same day, I posted a set of videos of
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Week in Review: 03/22/10 - 03/28/10" »
Monday, March 29, 2010
Toronto, ON -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL, OTCQX:AVARF) (“Avalon” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide a progress report on metallurgical process development for the Nechalacho rare earth element (“REE”) deposit, Thor Lake, NWT. Following the successful development of a flotation process for producing an REE mineral concentrate in 2009 (as described in the Company’s news
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Late last week a report was published by Byron Capital Markets, titled The Rare Earths: Pick Your Spots Carefully. The report generated a significant amount of buzz because many of its conclusions on the growth of the rare earths market contradict those of established commentators and analysts in the sector. I am not sure if the report
Friday, March 26, 2010
According to a Bloomberg news release published on the BusinessWeek web site earlier today, Goldman Sachs has sold its stake in Molycorp Minerals, owners of the Mountain Pass rare earths mine in California.There was little additional information released about the transaction, or the reasons behind it; Mark Smith, CEO of Molycorp, is quoted in the article as
Continue reading "BLOG: Goldman Sachs Sells Stake in Molycorp Minerals" »
Thursday, March 25, 2010
As discussed in previous commentaries, the rare earth industry as a whole, be related to resource development, downstream processing, government reviews and possible policy initiative, recycling and yes, interesting industry partnering initiatives will ‘see a lot of ligh*’ over the next 12 to 18 months (… and I’m not saying that having just attended Phosphor Global 2010).
Continue reading "BLOG: Kazatomprom establishes joint venture with Japanese company" »
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
March 23, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) Highlights: - Quest exploration work has defined a concentric, magnetically-ringed geophysical feature, six-km in diameter - 2009 exploration results returned important quantities of REE, zirconium, niobium, iron, phosphorous, titanium and yttrium from a magnetite-rich horizon identified by airborne magnetic surveys completed by Quest - 3-D Inversion interpretation of the airborne magnetics identified
March 24, 2010 (source: Marketwire) -- Dacha Capital Inc. (TSX VENTURE:DAC) (Dacha or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has completed the first tranche of its previously announced private placement (the Offering) of 40,429,719 special warrants of the Company (the Special Warrants), at a price of $0.45 per Special Warrant, for gross proceeds of approximately
Continue reading "NEWS: Dacha Capital Inc. Closes Private Placement Financing" »
The last several weeks have certainly been fascinating if nothing else. Imat least a td more assured from the discussions at producer and user industry conferences, the press releases, pundit commentaries and government-initiated studies, that folks are starting to recognize and appreciatethat any ‘green energy economy’ is dependent on the rare metal supply chain and that it
An article in todays Globe Mail Report on Business entitled Rare metals bring rare opportunities to mining Don Bubar was considered a bit of an oddball in the mid-1990s when he started a mining company that explored rare earth elements with strange names such as dysprosium, neodymium and terbium. Today, his obscure industry is attracting a lot
Continue reading "MEDIA: Rare metals bring rare opportunities to mining" »
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
We had a bumper crop of news and articles at RareMetalBlog last week - busy busy!The week started with news that Avalon received the 2010 Environmental Social Responsibility Award from PDAC, in recognition of the Company’s community engagement efforts during the exploration of its Nechalacho rare earth elements deposit, Thor Lake, NWT.This was followed by news from
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Week in Review: 03/15/10 - 03/21/10" »
Monday, March 22, 2010
At the same time that the TREM10 meeting was going on in Washington DC last week, A Rare Earths, Speciality Minor Metals Investment Summit was hosted at Londons Chamber of Commerce and Industry by Objective Capital. Among the speakers were representatives from a number of rare metal companies of interest to RareMetalBlog readers; the organizers have now
Continue reading "BLOG: Rare Metals Companies Present At London Investment Summit" »
March 21, 2010 (Source: Everything Material) --Molycorp Minerals LLC announces that its Board of Directors has approved an exploration program to be carried out in 2010 and 2011, for the purpose of better delineating the existence and extent of various Bastnasite, Monazite and other Rare Earth bearing mineral deposits known to exist outside the current mining area
Continue reading "MEDIA: MolyCorp mine may contain 200 million tons of rare earth metals" »
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Yesterday I published my notes from the first day of the Technology and Rare Earth Metals for National Security and Clean Energy meeting [TREM10] that took place in Washington D.C. Today in this article are my notes from the second day of the meeting.The morning kicked off with a keynote address from US Representative Mike Coffman (R-CO),
Saturday, March 20, 2010
As reported elsewhere at RareMetalBlog, this week saw the Technology and Rare Earth Metals for National Security and Clean Energy meeting [TREM10] take place in Washington D.C.. The meeting comprised two intense, packed days of presentations, panel discussions and candid round table sessions on a variety of themes and topics associated with rare earth elements and other
(Source: Tantalum Investing News) -- March 20, 2010 -- The movement to stop the flow of Congo conflict minerals into the global supply chain is growing and activist groups like The Enough Project are employing several tactics to get the message out. On Wednesday night, a special episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit aired with
Continue reading "MEDIA: Canadian companies pushing for Congo-free tantalum market" »
Friday, March 19, 2010
As mentioned earlier this week at RareMetalBlog, the US House Committee on Science and Technologys Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing this past Tuesday on Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century Industry. the hearings were supposed to have been broadcast live via the Web, but it appears there were technical difficulties at the time. However,
Continue reading "Testimony From Rare Earths Hearing Now Available Online" »
Im taking a quick break from posting on the TREM10 conference and other goings-on in Washington this week, to comment on an interesting rare earths story that was passed along to me earlier today.Regular readers of RareMetalBlog will be aware of Dacha Capitals recently-announced initiative to create a fund to be used to develop physical inventories of
Continue reading "And Then There Were Two: Dolefin SA Set To Launch Rare Earths Fund" »
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Interviewed by Sally Lowder of The Energy Report (3/18/2010), thepiece titledJohn Kaiser: Game-Changer on Rare Earths Horizon? expands on an interview we highlighted earlier RareMetalBlog Kicks off PDAC Kaiser Comments on Rare Earth Market. The Energy Report-- Kaiser Bottom-Fish Report editor John Kaiser, caught for this exclusive Energy Report interview as this years PDAC was winding down,
Continue reading "John Kaiser Energy Report Interview "Game-Changer on Rare Earths Horizon"" »
(Computerworld) March 17, 2010 -- WASHINGTON -- China is facing increasing criticism for holding down the value of its currency to gain export advantage, and for its cyber-attacks against Google . But another growing concern is its control of rare earth metals critical to high-tech manufacturing. Chinas pricing of these metals is so low that it has
Don Bubar, M.Sc., P.Geo, President and CEO for Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX: AVL, OTCQX: AVARF) was interviewed on BNNs Commodities on Thursday, March 18, 2010. Hosted by Brett Harris, Don was invited to speak about Avalon as PDAC’s 2010 Environmental and Social Responsibility award winner. Brett and Don discussed the progress of Avalon’s flagship heavy rare
Continue reading "MEDIA: Avalon CEO Don Bubar Interviewed on BNN Commodities Today" »
The press release posted below was put out by the US House of Representative’s Committee on Science and Technology (http://science.house.gov/press/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=2780) today. The team of RareMetalBlog found it interesting. March 17, 2010, (Washington, DC) – Witnesses from both the public and private sectors warned Members of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
I am presently attending the Technology Rare Earth Metals (TREM10) meeting in Washington D.C.. So far the event has been very lively and there have been numerous discussions on all aspects of the supply chain for rare earths, lithium and other metals. Ian London is also here and between us well try to capture some of the
Highlights: •Quest expects to receive a 43-101 Preliminary Resource Estimate for its recently-discovered B-Zone rare earth deposit by the end of March or early April from Wardrop Engineering Inc.•Metallurgical testing of a one-tonne bulk sample of B-Zone mineralization is currently being processed by Hazen Research and final results are expected by May 2010•A Scoping Study evaluation of
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Speaking before a House Subcommittee, a distinguished U.S. scientist demonstrated how increased rare-earth research and development could create new multi-billion-dollar industries -- RareMetalBlog received this news release: MASTERY OF RARE-EARTH ELEMENTS VITAL TO AMERICA’S SECURITY submitted by Ames Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science research facility operated by Iowa State University. March 16,
Continue reading "Rare-Earth Elements Vital to America's Security." »
This Financial Post articleby Peter Koven is from March 9th for those who havent seen it. Unfortunately with PDAC madness, I forgot to post it up earlier... A rare-earth gold rushThe race for supremacy in green technology turns on key elements It was an investor frenzy that truly came out of nowhere. In 2009, the hottest commodities
With the PDAC meeting in full flow this past week, the blog was naturally a little quiet to start with. I posted an article on a report by Global Witness on the ongoing problems associated with the military control of tin and tantalum mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Things seem to be going from
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Week in Review: 03/08/10 - 03/14/10" »
Monday, March 15, 2010
The RareMetalBlog team was delighted to kick off the PDAC 2010 on Sunday, March 7th with our TREO 2Nitereception at the Intercontinental. With over 300 people in attendance, special thanks should be extended first and foremost to the sponsoring companies: Avalon Rare Metals (TSX: AVL, OTCQX: AVARF), Dacha Capital Inc. (TSX-V: DAC), Great Western Minerals Group (TSX-V:
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Kicks off PDAC & Kaiser Comments on Rare Earth Market." »
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 15, 2010 (MARKETWIRE) -- Quest Uranium Corporation (Quest) (CA:QUC 2.58, +0.02, +0.78%) announces that its Board of Directors has today granted stock options to seven directors and/or officers in respect of an aggregate of 380,000 common shares. The options were granted under Quests 2007 Stock Option Plan. The exercise price of the options is
Continue reading "NEWS: Quest Uranium Grants Stock Options" »
Toronto, ON -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL, OTCQX:AVARF) (“Avalon” or the “Company”) is proud to announce that at this year’s annual convention of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (“PDAC”), Avalon received the 2010 Environmental Social Responsibility Award in recognition of the Company’s community engagement efforts during the exploration of its Nechalacho rare earth elements
Continue reading "NEWS: Avalon Receives PDAC’s 2010 Environmental & Social Responsibility Award" »
Sunday, March 14, 2010
The interest in magnetic refrigeration as a new solid state, competitive cooling technology has grown considerably over the past 10 years. This effectively coincides with growing concerns about global warming and ever-increasing energy consumption. At the Second International Conference on Magnetic Refrigeration at Room Temperature in 2007 (Thermag II), it was pointed out that some 15% of
Continue reading "BLOG: Magnetic Refrigeration may be closer than we think" »
Last Monday during the PDAC meeting in Toronto, the folks at Proactive Investors hosted a Rare Earth Power Breakfast with five companies in the rare earths space. Originally intended for 75 attendees, over 120 folks showed up at 7:30AM and it was standing room only, creating quite the buzz.Presentations were given by: Don Bubar of Avalon Rare
Continue reading "PDAC Morsels: The Rare Earth Power Breakfast" »
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Next week on Tuesday March 16, 2010, thethe Investigations Oversight Subcommittee of the US House Committee on Science and Technology will hold a hearing titled Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century Industry in Washington D.C. This is a rescheduling of the session which was cancelled last month after the snow storms in Washington D.C. On the roster
Thursday, March 11, 2010
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 11, 2010 (SOURCE MARKETWIRE) -- Canadian Orebodies Inc. (CA:CO 0.16, +0.03, +18.52%) (Orebodies) is pleased to announce assay results from grab samples taken from 5 of its Lithium/Rare Metals properties all located in Ontario. The properties are owned 100% by Orebodies (subject to a 2% NSR, 50% of which can be purchased by Orebodies
Earlier today, Global Witness published a new report on the ongoing problems associated with the military control of tin and tantalum mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This follows on from a report that we covered here at RareMetaBlog back in July 2009, on this dark side of the minerals business. Thecampaign group, which works
Continue reading "The Continued Militarization of Mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo" »
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
We began last week with the news thatUcore Uranium has published an update on the mineralogy of its Bokan Mountain project, with the work being led by Tony Mariano, and due to be presented at the SME meeting in Phoenix last week. This was followed by the news thatDon Bubar, CEO of Avalon Rare Metals, has joined
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Week in Review: 03/01/10 - 03/07/10" »
Friday, March 05, 2010
Tasman Metals Ltd. (Tasman or the Company) (TSXV - TSM). Mr Mark Saxon, President and CEO, is pleased to report assay results from the first five drill holes testing the Companys 100% owned Norra Karr rare earth element (REE) - zirconium (Zr) project in Sweden. Four of the five drill holes intersected wide intervals of REE-Zr mineralization
The following piece crossed Metal-Pages earlier this morning, further demonstrating that progress is being made in establishing the Rest of the Worlds rare earth supply resources... LONDON (Metal-Pages) 05-Mar-10. Upcoming Australian rare earths producer Lynas Corporation has awarded a A$36,232,733 (US$32.72 million) lump sum contract to Abesque Engineering Ltd to complete engineering design and construction of the
Thursday, March 04, 2010
March 01, 2010 --GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Molycorp Minerals, LLC announced today that its Board of Directors has approved an exploration program to be carried out in 2010 and 2011, for the purpose of better delineating the existence and extent of various Bastnasite, Monazite and other Rare Earth bearing mineral deposits known to exist outside the current mining
Continue reading "Molycorp Minerals to Commence Rare Earth Exploration Program" »
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwire - March 4, 2010) - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (GWMG or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (PINK SHEETS:GWMGF) and Rare Earth Extraction Co. Ltd. of Stellenbosch (Rareco), South Africa are pleased to announce that they have entered into an exclusivity agreement (the Agreement) that allows both companies to continue to move forward on their plans
Werent we just chatting about the strategic initiative andpolicy changes being considered by the Japanese government. The following news release crossed MArketwire yesterday morning... MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Mar 03, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Midland Exploration Inc. (Midland) (CA:MD 1.45, -0.07, -4.61%) is pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with Japan Oil, Gas and
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSX:AVL)(OTCQX:AVARF) (Avalon or the Company) is pleased to provide an update on recent progress of the 2010 winter work program on its Nechalacho rare earth elements (REE) deposit (the Project), at Thor Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Drilling commenced in January and a second drill rig was mobilized
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
We started things off last week, with a review by me of an article by Anthony Dutton of IBC Advanced Alloys on owning the customer and connecting the dots along the entire supply chain in order to facilitate the success of a venture in the rare metals space - a.k.a. mine to market and the like.Stew posted
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Week in Review: 02/22/10 - 02/28/10" »
Daimler AG used the Geneva Auto Show as the backdrop for its announcement today to partner with BYD to make an electric car for the Chinese market.Bloomberg.com covered the story reporting that Daimler’s Chief executive Dieter Zetsche said the investment could easily get to US$135 million and would start soon.The car will be at the top of
Continue reading "Daimler Deal with Chinese Electric Car Firm BYD Announced" »
Monday, March 01, 2010
On behalf of the Editors of RareMetalBlog, I am pleased to announce the 2010 TREO 2Nite PDAC Reception. TREO, which stands for total rare earth oxides, is one of the measurements of rare earth resources. Shareholders and interested parties are invited to join the RareMetalBlog TREO 2Nite soiree for drinks and hors doeuvres and to meet sponsoring
Continue reading "RareMetalBlog Presents the TREO 2Nite PDAC 2010 Reception" »
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 1, 2010) - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES DACHA CAPITAL INC. (TSX VENTURE:DAC) (DAC or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Don Bubar, CEO of Avalon Rare Metals to its advisory board. Mr. Bubar is a geologist with over 30 years experience
March 1, 2010 (Source: Marketwire) - Ucore Uranium Inc. (TSX VENTURE:UCU) is pleased to provide an update on detailed mineralogical studies on surface and drill core samples from its Bokan Mountain rare earth element (REE) project. The work is being led by Dr. A.N. Mariano, a renowned expert on REE minerals. Analyses are being made by traditional
Continue reading "NEWS: Ucore Provides an Update on REE Mineralogy at Bokan" »
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