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By Stephan Bogner |
May 9, 2012
In light of the strongly growing world population especially in emerging countries the question when staring at the vanishing commodity supply must not be when the commodity boom will end, but rather if the boom can come to an end at all.
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By JT Long |
April 26, 2012
The editor of Kaiser Research Online sees 2015-2020 as a critical time for rare earth projects. Any later, he argues, and companies who have not reached production will be out of the game.
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By Brian Sylvester |
January 4, 2012
China's tight grip on rare earth elements supply may loosen as other deposits around the world come to fruition in 2012 and the head of global research with investment bank Byron Capital Markets, discusses the supply and demand fundamentals.
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By Jon Nadler |
November 8, 2011
Precious metals prices opened mixed on Tuesday with gold and silver retreating a bit while platinum and palladium staged advances. Spot gold was quoted at $1,791 per ounce, down about $5 while silver fell 15 cents to the $34.bid level per ounce.
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By Jon Hykawy |
November 3, 2011
Rare earths are an unsettling topic. Today, everyone tries to claim a concrete view on these materials since at least 2002. But unless you were a scientist or involved in making catalysts or magnets, you probably didn't know they existed until last year.
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By Jon Nadler |
November 2, 2011
Metals markets opened the midweek session on a positive note as players attempted to repair some of the damage that had been inflicted on Monday and Tuesday by the going-on in Europe and elsewhere.
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By Jeb Handwerger |
November 2, 2011
The real issue at hand in REE-dependent industries is supply shortages. While alternatives cannot be found for all uses, it is necessary for companies to evaluate their needs and the resulting costs. Because not all rare earths are created equal.
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By Jon Nadler |
September 30, 2011
Friday's market action in precious metals got off to a bit of a mixed and rocky start as the US dollar continued its ascent on the trade-weighted index and as traders began to square books and close the trading logs on a quarter.
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By Jon Nadler |
August 3, 2011
Precious metals dealings once again opened mixed in New York, with gold and silver still free from the effects of any profit-taking gravitational pull and with the noble metals exhibiting the opposite condition.
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By Jack Lifton |
July 19, 2011
Nowhere is China's current stranglehold on the supply of rare earths more deeply felt than in Japan, and nowhere else, I repeat, nowhere else, is obtaining an alternate supply more important than in Japan.
