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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.
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By Gareth Hatch |
December 20, 2011
Take a deep breath, folks. Being a materials scientist by training, I am naturally a big fan of ongoing research and development work. I am much less of a fan of the now well-worn path of hype disguised as scientific breakthroughs
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By Jack Lifton |
December 6, 2011
The various rare-earth markets are interdependent in a complex way that depends on their end uses. Greedy stock promoters are no match for the forces of the market. "Announcements" are not solutions to problems of supply.
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By Brian Sylvester |
November 29, 2011
Tee co-founder of Technology Metals Research LLC, gives us the lay of the land in the rare earth sector. Many variables are shaping this developing market, and data makes the difference in determining viable investments.
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By Gareth Hatch |
November 14, 2011
To my knowledge Molycorp has never actually explicitly said that they would produce separated MREOs/HREOs as part of the ramp up to 40,000t of, but the company has asserted that it will produce such elements in "commercially significant quantities."
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By Anthony J. Alfidi |
October 26, 2011
If resource availability will ever constrain First Solar's ambitions, falling tellurium supply will be the main culprit. Tellurium is largely a byproduct of copper mining and the world price of "Dr. Copper" has fallen this year.
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By Gareth Hatch |
October 25, 2011
The list of projects on the TMR Advanced Rare-Earth Projects Index has just been updated with two new rare-earth mineral resource estimates announced in recent weeks and other updates.
