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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
February 9, 2012
Without critical materials many technologies, products, gadgets and toys, would not exist. The US used to be the world’s leader in development and production of high-tech magnets, it can be again, but not without required rare earth oxides.
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 13, 2011
The battery materials and technology analyst with Toronto-based Byron Capital Markets, talks about which vanadium producers are ready to grapple with the prospect of increasing demand from the adaption of 'green' uses.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
January 11, 2011
It is easy to accuse the Chinese of using rare earth quotas in tactical diplomacy. However, the fault lies not in the stars but in ourselves. We closed our rare earth production facilities years ago - in effect forfeiting the very means of manufacture.
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By Russell L. Smith |
October 21, 2010
The United Steelworkers union petition could be said to be unprecedented. It is the first to be accepted by USTR that, if proven, would, invalidate for WTO purposes what amounts to a national industrial policy.
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By Philip Burgert |
October 15, 2010
An industrial labor union's petition for an US investigation of China's policies and practices involving green energy technology and access to rare earths was accepted Friday by the Obama administration.
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By Philip Burgert |
September 13, 2010
Export restrictions imposed by China on rare earths are "a clear violation" of commitments made by China when it joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, the union said.
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By Jack Lifton |
September 7, 2010
China is the world's largest end user of copper, from which is constructed the nerve system of civilization, the electric power distribution grid, as well as all of the devices that generate and transform electricity for individual or industrial end use.
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By Oilprice.com |
April 28, 2010
The promise of green energy has intrigued the Middle East, where concern about future reserves runs deep.
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By Proactiveinvestors |
March 12, 2010
Lithium and rare earths got hot because of one simple fact: the emergence of new green technologies that require these metals to function.
