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By Sally Lowder |
May 23, 2012
In a sector where the playing field is not always level, the chairman and CEO of rare earth supplier American Elements, makes a case for more cooperation. Silver insists that junior miners finally have an opportunity to develop the US resource and manufacturing sectors.
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By Ron Hera |
April 16, 2012
The history of the US dollar is closely linked to US involvement in a series of wars. The loss of value in the dollar caused by excessive expansion of the money supply, together with rising demand for raw materials, has led to permanently higher global commodity prices.
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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 Jack Lifton |
November 28, 2011
A fantasy of growing and infinite demand and inelastic prices (prices not driven by simple supply and demand) increasing without limit, has placed the most emphasis on those rare-earth juniors who say that they will produce in the near term.
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By Chris Berry |
October 13, 2011
Competition among non-Chinese junior mining companies to successfully mine rare earth elements began as a footrace and evolved into a full-on stampede. That race is now unraveling, thanks in part to the sheer number of companies involved.
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By Jack Lifton |
September 14, 2011
I am appalled by the judgment of mining analysts and managers in the rare earth space. The primitive state of the economic analysis of the rare earth supply and demand sector is indicative of poor understanding of resource economics.
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By Jack Lifton |
August 8, 2011
If American self-sufficiency is important to insure that our civilian and military manufacturing industries retain their market share and can grow, then those sectors of our economy must strike bargains to ensure their own prosperity
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By Jack Lifton |
January 3, 2011
Most people think that they left graphite behind when they graduated from pencils to pens early on in their school days, but the truth is that this slippery substance remains a crucial part of our daily lives.
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By Brian Sylvester |
October 14, 2010
To avoid supply disruptions, companies in need of REEs for products are being encouraged to set up manufacturing in China in the interim. Of course, that's not going over very well because that's extortion, says Kaiser.
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By David Galland |
May 6, 2010
With only so much oil to go around, every new off-take agreement signed by the Chinese with the Saudis or Venezuelans, for example, is a net loss in supply to other bidders, notably the world's largest energy consumer, the United States.
