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Posts from October 2011
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Monday, October 31, 2011
The rare earths scene of 30 years ago seems unrecognisable. In the latest development regarding China’s tightening control on rare earths, China Daily is reporting todaythat a new specialized invoicing system is proposed for REE exports, aimed at further crimping illegal production - and cutting off further supplies to the rest of the world. Yet, back in
Continue reading "Looking back when China was keen to sell REEs " »
October 31, 2011 (Source: WSJ) -- Colorado Rare Earths Inc. announced that the company has changed its name to U.S. Rare Earths Inc. (UREE) following its July agreement to buy the so-named closely held miner. The Lonoke, Ark.-based companys acquisition boosted its holdings of potential rare earth element-bearing properties to more than 12,000 acres of claims in
Continue reading "Colorado Rare Earths Now US Rare Earths After Acquisition" »
October 31, 2011 -- Today Hastings Rare Metals released their Quarterly Report, click here for the release.
October 31, 2011 -- Today Metallica Minerals released their Quarterly Report, click here for the full document.
Continue reading "Quarterly Report for period ending 30 September 2011" »
October 31st, 2011 (Source: Globe Mining) -- Globe Metals Mining Limited (ASX: GBE) is pleased to present its September Quarter 2011 Activities Report. Click here for the full document. (PDF)
Continue reading "Globe Metals and Mining releases September quarter 2011 report" »
October 31, 2011 (Source: Arafura) -- Highlights Company’s activities remain fully focused on delivering the 100% owned Nolans Rare Earths Project. All Bankable Feasibility Study work streams are in progress; Major drill program at Nolans Bore identifies additional Rare Earths mineralisation; Previously announced new work programs to simplify and de-risk the Nolans Project are underway; Good progress
Continue reading "Quarterly Cashflow and Activities Report" »
October 31, 2011 (Source: CNW) -- Canadian International Minerals Inc. (CIN-TSX.V) is pleased to announce that it has optioned its 100% owned Treasure Mountain silver property (TMS) to Canadian Strategic Metals Corp. (CSM). CSM may earn 60% of the TMS property by paying $75,000 and expending $875,000 on exploration over 3 years. The TMS property directly adjoins
Continue reading "Treasure Mountain Silver Property Optioned" »
Ellis Martin interviews Anthony Dutton, President of IBC Advanced Alloys (TSX-V:IB) (OTCQX: IAALF)
Continue reading "Ellis Martin Report with IBC Advanced Alloys" »
October 31, 2011 (Source: SMH) -- Lynas Corporation says slight delays at its controversial Malaysian refinery will not affect its plans to supply rare earths to customers by the first half of next year. The company said the processing of rare-earth ore at the plant would now begin early next year, a delay of a month or
Continue reading "Lynas faces delays but still bullish on plant" »
Quietly, but persistently, Japan pushes on, setting up alliances and working relationships that create a robust landing strip for the future. The country’s foreign minister, Koichiro Gemba, met with his counterpart in India over the weekend; the two agreed that a plan to develop potential rare earth deposits should be on the cards. The timing is good,
Continue reading "Japan, India Talk about Half-Lives and a Future REE Industry" »
October 31, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. (TSX VENTURE:IB)(OTCQX:IAALF)(PINK SHEETS:IAALF) (IBC or the Company), a vertically integrated manufacturer of rare metals (beryllium) based alloys and advanced cast and forged products, has released its audited financial results for the year ended June 30, 2011. Fiscal 2011 Financial Highlights Sales increased to $20.45 million, up 37%
Continue reading "IBC Advanced Alloys Announces 2011 Financial Results" »
Great Western Minerals Group Announces Pricing on Previously Announced $15 Million Private Placement
October 31, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- THIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:GWG) (OTCQX:GWMGF) (GWMG or the Company) is pleased to announce that the Company and a syndicate of
October 31, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Ucore Rare Metals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:UCU)(OTCQX:UURAF) (Ucore or the Company) is pleased to report on innovative testing of ore sorting technology for rare earth pre-concentration. The advanced technology, known as X-Ray Transmission (XRT), has not been widely applied within the rare earth sector, and Ucore believes it is among the first
Continue reading "Ucore XRT Testing Shows Prospective Doubling of Mill Feed Grade" »
Bad news this morning from Asia, where the “second to market” non Chinese supplier of REEs, Lynas, has announced a delay of a few months at its REE refinery at Pahang Malaysia. According to Lynas the delay is only likely to be of a few months, though worryingly, there is strong local opposition to Lynas opening and
All Australian resources companies should, as of today, have filed their quarterly returns with the stock exchange. While we post regular material on the main players as it is released here on RareMetalBlog, these three-monthly reports give us a chance to update readers on some of the other companies in the rare earth and rare metal space.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Special thanks to Virgina Morgan, Director of Communications IR from Avalon Rare Metals who sent us this YouTube video.
Friday, October 28, 2011
(The WeeklyReview is a new feature on RareMetalBlog; each week, I shall be taking one - or more - issues that have arisen during the week and trying to offer some insight or opinion.) This week: what is critical? I ask this after the publication of two reports that assess future supplies of certain metals. One, by
Notice is hereby given that the 2011 Annual General Meeting of shareholders of Lynas Corporation Limited will be at the Barnet Long Room, Customs House, 31 Alfred Street, Sydney NSW on 30 November 2011 at 10.00 am (Sydney time). For the full document, click here.
Continue reading "Lynas: Notice of Annual General Meeting" »
October 28th 2011 (Source: MRW) -- A European Commission (EC) research team has said the WEEE directive should be rewritten to encourage more recovery of critical and rare metals. A study published by the Joint Research Centre Institute for Energy and Transport (JRC-IET) found that due to projected demand there would be a “bottleneck” in the supply
Continue reading "EC report calls for greater rare metals recycling" »
President and CEO Peter Cashin, who is steering Quest Rare Minerals toward a 2016 start-up production date, operates with a few basic tenets firmly in mind: Non-binding agreements aren’t deals at all; they just confirm that a company doesn’t want to be tied to a deal and will jump when the next best thing comes along; Given
Continue reading "Strange Lake — A Quest for Rare Earth Success" »
October 28th, 2011 (Source: Northern Minerals) -- The past quarter has been a defining period in the development of the Brown’s Range Rare Earth Elements (REE) Project in northern Australia. During the period, Northern Minerals undertook a 12,000m drilling program at Browns Range. Assays received to date have included exceptional Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE) intersections and
Continue reading "Northern Minerals Quarterly Activities Report" »
October 28, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX:RES)(NYSE Amex:REE) is pleased to announce rare earth element (REE) assay results from 21 drill holes completed during the ongoing 2011 core drilling program at the Companys 100% owned Bear Lodge property, located in northeastern Wyoming, USA. The 21 holes intercepted many high-grade REE zones and extensive
Continue reading "Rare Element Reports Initial 2011 Drilling Results From Bear Lodge" »
Increasing the coulombic efficiency from 99.9 per cent to 99.99 per cent and beyond translates to Li-ion batteries with projected cycle lifetimes increasing from 1000 to 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. Electric vehicles and grid energy storage applications demand 10,000 cycles or more.ReadYesterday as part of our coverage of the Detroit Battery Show, we covered the work of Dr.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Several weeks ago, BBC Science and Technology Reporter Jason Palmer reported that “Researchers have apparently designed a ‘cloak’ that is invisible to magnetic fields both coming in and coming out”. Did I read this correctly -- folks have developed a Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak that guides magnetic waves around a cloaks wearer? (In Harry’s case, you couldn’t
Continue reading "‘Metamaterials' can make things invisible" »
October 27, 2011 (Source: Bloomberg) -- The helicopter took off, the wooden city of Ketchikan slowly receded, and the mountainous rain forest approached. It was an unseasonably warm day in February 2007. Through circles of moisture on the windows the passengers watched the choppy gray ocean off the southern Alaska coast roll by underneath. In the back
October 27, 2011 (Source: Great Western Minerals Group LTD.) -- THIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT AUTHORIZED FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES. Great Western Minerals Group (GWMG or the Company) is pleased to announce that it has engaged a syndicate of
October 27, 2011 (Source: Alkane) -- HIGHLIGHTS DUBBO PROJECT – DFS and TWO NEW MOUs COMPLETED The completed Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) is being expanded toincorporate the larger 1Mtpa development project, with the overallproject time frame unaltered. The study indicates the intended 1Mtpa development returns anEBITDA of A$6 billion and NPV of A$1.2 billion for an initial
It’s time to place bets on what China does with REE export quotas during the first half of 2012. Given this year’s machinations, there’s no reason not to expect a further cut or a revision in the quota, what with widespread curtailment of domestic production, falling REE prices but continued speculation earlier in the year that rare
Continue reading "Coming Soon to a Market Near You — REE Export Quotas 2012" »
October 27, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. (TSX VENTURE:IB)(OTCQX:IAALF)(PINK SHEETS:IAALF) (IBC or the Company) and Ceramic Tubular Products, LLC (CTP) signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly advance and develop their respective nuclear fuel technologies to address operational and performance issues with light water reactor (LWR) fuel systems. IBC and CTPs nuclear fuel technologies
October 27, 2011 (Source: PR Newswire) -- OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), the financial information and technology services company that provides the worlds largest electronic marketplace for broker-dealers to trade unlisted stocks, today announced that Matamec Explorations Inc. (OTCQX: MHREF; TSX.V: MAT), a company focused on rare earths elements deposits, as well as gold, base, rare
October 27 2011 (Source: Businesswire) -- Texas Rare Earth Resources Corp. (OTCQB:TRER), a heavy rare earths exploration and development company, today announced that it has completed Phase I of its metallurgical testing and characterization. The laboratory analysis and testing was completed by Mountain States R D International, Inc. Marc LeVier, President and Chief Executive Officer of Texas
October 27, 2011 (Source: Steel Guru) -- Rare Earth Metals Inc announced the completion of the initial drill program on the Lavergne REE Prospect. A total of seven holes were completed as an initial test to confirm and expand on historic results which had indications of wide zones of Rare Earth mineralization. This recent drilling is the
All week we’ve been following the news from the Detroit battery show, where over 160 firms are exhibiting the very latest developments in their modern high-tech batteries. While many of the latest developments involve cell phones, grid storage, and solar storage batteries, the big breakthrough everyone is waiting on lies in the area of the batteries powering
Continue reading "From Detroit: EVs Future Demand Catalyst for non-Chinese-sourced REEs" »
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
October 26, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- THIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. (TSX VENTURE:IB)(OTCQX:IAALF)(PINK SHEETS:IAALF) (IBC or the Company) has closed its previously announced public offering (the Offering) of an aggregate of
October 26, 2011 (Source: Global Sources) -- Mainland China’s projects on new solar cells are focusing on the development of thin-film batteries to match the portability trend in electronics. Makers investing in RD plan to begin mass manufacture next year, while those that entered the sector earlier are undertaking expansion programs. One such endeavor involves the Hong
Continue reading "Thin-film Solar Battery Production to Commence in 2012" »
October 26, 2011 (Source: Alkane) -- DUBBO ZIRCONIA PROJECT (DZP) - Fourth MOU Alkane Resources Ltd has signed a Memorandum ofUnderstanding with a European company to produce andmarket ferro-niobium using niobium concentrate from theDZP. The parties will enter into a joint venture to use that company’sproprietary technology to process DZP niobium concentrate ata facility in Australia (or
Continue reading "Alkane Signs MOU for DZP Entire Niobium Production" »
October 26, 2011 (Source: VOA) -- Last week, China’s biggest producer of rare earths elements suspended production to try to boost prices for the 17 minerals essential for manufacturing modern technologies. Although China currently has a near monopoly on these crucial resources, its dominance could soon be challenged as trade partners lose patience with the manipulation of
Continue reading "China's Rare Earth Minerals Supply Manipulation Could Backfire" »
Now it’s Europe’s turn. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (Institute for Energy and Transport) has published a 164-page tome called Critical Metals in Strategic Energy Technologies. (http://goo.gl/L8n6g) Why? Well, that’s what joint research centres and institutes funded by government budgets do, don’t they? And this particular report has latched upon the novel idea that a shortage
Continue reading "European Commission Has a Go at Tackling Critical Metal Bottlenecks" »
October 26, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- The Risk List 2011, a new report by the British Geological Survey, is being cited by Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. CEO Peter Dickie (TSX VENTURE:QRE)(OTCQX:QREDF)(FRANKFURT:BR3) as further evidence that the world needs more sources of rare earth and strategic metals in secure locations. The Risk List 2011 demonstrates that the
October 25 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Wealth Minerals Ltd. (the Company or Wealth) (TSX VENTURE:WML)(OTCQX:WMLLF)(PINK SHEETS:WMLLF)(FRANKFURT:EJZ), announces that, pursuant to its 2004 Incentive Stock Option Plan, it has granted incentive stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company and its affiliates to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,200,000 common shares in the capital
October 26, 2011 (Source: NTNews) -- Arafura is finalising a bankable feasibility study, which is expected to be finished late next year. The company aims to mine rare earth oxides, phosphate, gypsum and uranium at the mine and transport them to a $1 billion processing plant to be built at Whyalla in South Australia. Rare earths, while
Continue reading "Spur for investors to back Territory project" »
’As several electrons per metal atom can be transferred, this concept allows extraordinarily high energy densities to be achieved — up to 10 times as high as those of conventional lithium-ion batteries,’ explained Fichtner. Instead of the lithium cation, the fluoride anion takes over charge transfer. At the cathode and anode, a metal fluoride is formed or
Continue reading "Where's a Fluoride Battery When a Lithium-ion Battery Won't Do?" »
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
October 25, 2011 (Source: Marketwire) -- Elissa Resources (Elissa or the Company) (TSX VENTURE:ELI)(OTCQX:ELSRF)(PINK SHEETS:ELSRF) is pleased to report that it recently staked three blocks of claims totalling approximately 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) covering significant parts of a large REE (rare earth elements) bearing mineral belt located in eastern Idaho and south-western Montana, U.S.A. Elissa staked its
Continue reading "Elissa Acquires Additional US Based Rare Earth Projects" »
October 25, 2011 (Source: Lynas) -- Lynas Corporation Limited (ASX: LYC) will hold conference calls to discuss the Quarterly Report for the period ending 30 September 2011 that is due to be lodged with the ASX on 31 October 2011. There will be a QA session at the end of the calls. Details of the calls are
Continue reading "Lynas Quarterly Report Investor Relations Calls" »
October 25, 2011 (Source: Canada Newswire) -- Strategic Resources Inc. (Strategic) offers the following update on its Gallinas Mountains Rare Earth project in Lincoln County, New Mexico: The drilling program referenced in the press release of June 23, 2011 had two components to it. It was designed to further examine (1) the stratigraphy along the main fault
Continue reading "Gallinas Mountains Rare Earth Project - Update" »
According to the news link provided by The Battery Show for the Detroit News, this show used to be in San Jose, California. The reason it was moved to Metro Detroit this October and in 2012 is that organizers decided they wanted to be closer to the heart of the battery systems and electric vehicle industry.As you
Continue reading "Get Ready to Rumble: Fight For Battery Supremacy Hits Detroit" »
October 25, 2011 (Source: Reuters) -- Rare Earth Materials China, which controls 97 percent of the worlds rare earth supplies, alarmed its trading partners in 2010 by restricting exports of the minerals, which are used in a variety of clean energy and high technologies. In some cases, foreign firms have come under pressure to relocated their businesses
Another day, another company decides that rare earth recycling must be a core part of it’s business plan going forward. Nissan Motor Co. came out with a new six-year environmental plan (no chance it was ever going to be five-year plan), which will focus on the reduction of its carbon footprint, a shift to renewables and a
October 25, 2011 (Source: The Newswire) -- Mr. George A. Brown, President and CEO of Cache Exploration Inc. (TSX-V:CAY) (Cache) is pleased to announce that the extensive exploration program of approximately three months announced July 25, 2011 at the Cross Hills Properties near the Burin Peninsula in western Newfoundland has been expanded and extended due to the
Continue reading "Cache Expands REE Exploration Program Based On Positive Results" »
Monday, October 24, 2011
Perhaps President Obama will form yet another 12-member “Super Committee” to try and solve this latest riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma called rare earths. When Winston Churchill said something similar in 1939, he was talking about Russia, how its actions might revolve around just one thing: Russian national interest. The same could be said
Continue reading "I'll Take My Quotas Medium-Rare, with Some Chinese Cerium on the Side" »
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