March 25, 2013 Japan’s massive rare earth discovery threatens China’s supremacy The deposit contains rare earths that are 20 to 30 times more concentrated than those coming from China.
March 24, 2013 Canadian mining investments in Latin America INTERACTIVE MAP: Explore active mines by company, country, and the year that the mine was acquired.
March 23, 2013 Australians develop new recovery method for platinum and palladium Technique could also be applied to purify rare earth elements.
March 20, 2013 INN VIDEO: Chris Grove explains tantalum uses and smuggling On the use of tantalum in the electronics industry and how the metal is smuggled out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
March 16, 2013 Avanti fights back after Nisga’a look to halt mine restart Move could impede the Kitsault molybdenum mine.
March 15, 2013 160-year study of real commodity prices sees beginning of the end of the supercycle For those with a very long time horizon, the news is good though.
March 15, 2013 Britain plunges into deep sea mining with American company New industry could bring in as much as $60 billion for the country.
March 15, 2013 Molycorp racked with writedown, job cuts Molycorp also warned the first half of 2013 would see weaker performance.
March 14, 2013 Japanese miner building rare earth recovery plant in the Phillipines The scandium recovery facility will be built later this year with operations slated to begin in 2014.
March 10, 2013 Honda’s starts recycling program to extract 80% of rare earths from used hybrid batteries 386 hybrid vehicles damaged in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami prompted the Japanese carmaker to design a new extraction process.
US asks allies to step up measures on Chinese minerals Ending US reliance on the minerals has been a top priority for Washington since last year, when Beijing imposed export restrictions on rare earths. January 15, 2026 | 04:05 pm
