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By JT Long |
March 13, 2013
The biggest new source for platinum group metals just might be what Jack Lifton calls "the rubber tire mine." Removing the catalytic converter from a car's emission system produces a rate of return that rivals the production rates of the South African platinum giants.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
November 7, 2012
Gold fell slightly in Asia prior to eking out further gains and rising above $1,730/oz in early European trading after President Obama was confirmed as the next president of the United States.
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By Brian Sylvester |
October 4, 2012
The worst is over, postulates the Euro Pacific Canada analyst. But is modest appreciation in rare earth stocks a symptom of across-the-board improvement in equities, or have fundamentals in the space changed for the better?
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By JT Long |
September 21, 2012
Got a rare earth deposit? Great. Got a mine? Even better. But do you have a processing plant? No? That could be a problem. The market doesn't understand how complex and expensive solid-phase rare earth extraction can be.
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By Jack Lifton |
September 17, 2012
Even the HREE producers coming on stream in the next two years will have little choice but to sell their products to Chinese or Japanese rare-earth metal and alloy producers. There is no other location for them to go.
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By Alec Gimurtu |
June 20, 2012
There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets. The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security Senior Fellow explains how investors can play a crucial role in building a supply chain.
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By Gareth Hatch |
March 1, 2012
In the past couple of years the European Union has been increasingly focused on issues concerning strategic materials, including the REEs, and in that context, Norra Kärr is seen within the EU as a strategic asset.
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By Gareth Hatch |
December 29, 2011
In the announcement from the ministry, it was stated that the first round of quota allocations (totaling 24,904 t) will represent 80% of the quota allocations for 2012, which indicates that the total for the coming year will be 31,130 t of rare earths
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By Jason Hamlin |
December 27, 2011
The exciting driver of investment demand in graphite is the future potential of "graphene," which is composed of tightly bound carbon atoms. So what is all of the fuss about? To start off, it is the thinnest and strongest material ever developed.
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By Zig Lambo |
December 22, 2011
The founder and CEO of Alfidi Capital gives a rundown of his due diligence checklist and shares some junior companies poised for success in this exciting, yet now challenging sector.