April 17, 2015 Denham Capital’s Caroline Donally on private equity in mining Director of $1bn fund discusses Denham's unique approach, the vibrant parts of the M&A market and what juniors should do to attract capital.
April 15, 2015 Molycorp to supply rare earths for use in high-efficiency Siemens wind turbine generators Molycorp will supply Siemens with rare earth materials over the next 10 years.
April 13, 2015 Rare earth price rally evaporates Beijing ups production limits for 2015 by 12% to 52,500 tonnes after exports bounce back, pulling the plug on a brief rally in rare earth prices.
April 8, 2015 Quebec mining fund ready to pull trigger on $1bn investments Quebec's $1 billion Capital Mines Hydrocarbures fund is close to buying equity stakes in mining projects outside iron ore worth as much as $200m a shot.
April 8, 2015 Signs of life for mining M&A Mining transactions almost doubled last year and the trend is likely to stretch over 2015, as lower commodity prices are making some unprofitable.
April 7, 2015 New battery charges a cellphone in one minute Stanford discovery of an ultrafast, flexible, rechargeable aluminium-graphite ion battery could open up major new demand for graphite, bauxite miners.
April 6, 2015 North Korea to extract maximum benefit from rare earth resources Many countries, notably China, Japan and South Korea, are scrambling for the abundant rare earth resources of North Korea, enabling the Kim Jong-un regime to extract maximum economic and political…
April 6, 2015 Texas Rare Earth Resources and AREVA subsidiary sign uranium offtake agreement According to the agreement, TRER will supply up to 300,000 pounds of natural uranium concentrates (U308) per year based upon a pricing formula indexed to U308 spot prices at the…
April 3, 2015 Mining top executives the gloomiest of all: report Despite the overall pessimism, mining CEOs remain just as confident on their own company’s growth as they were in previous years.
Codelco, SQM seal lithium venture in Chile’s Atacama desert NovaAndino Litio, the venture, will control all lithium exploration, production and sales in the Atacama salar until 2060. December 27, 2025 | 09:38 am
