November 29, 2012

Valterra Returns 65.6% of carbon content into jumbo & large flake graphite fractions in metallurgical grab sample at Bobcaygeon

Analysis returned returned the following highlights: 65.6% graphite reported to jumbo and large flake size fraction classifications including 45.6% jumbo flake (+48 mesh or > 0.297mm).

November 28, 2012

Focus Graphite initiates legal recourse

The company has announced it is exercising a legal recourse against certain parties with respect to a transaction with the company for the Labrador Trough group of properties.

November 26, 2012

Foreign mining firms face up to 50% wage hikes in Zambia

Pay and working conditions have become a thorny issue in Zambia particularly when it comes to the many Chinese-run mines in the country.

November 26, 2012

Demonstrators march 300km on foot to protest rare earth plant in Malaysia

Yet investor hopes remain undiminished

November 24, 2012

Shares in Australia’s Lynas Corp jump

Shares in Australia’s Lynas Corp soared as much as 12% Friday after the company said its first shipment of rare earth concentrates arrived in Malaysia, indicating an imminent start of…

November 23, 2012

Molycorp explodes as insiders go on buying spree

Traders follow company execs and pile into the rare earth miner sending the stock up 19%

November 22, 2012

China to start subsidizing rare earth miners as exports fall 18% in just one month

Nothing, not even a month-long halt in production, has stopped REE prices from falling.

November 22, 2012

Chicago startup pioneers electric motors free of rare earth metals

Switched reluctance motors to make their debut on electric bicycles

November 22, 2012

Chinese rare earth domination shakes up regional trade ties

Japan turns to Kazakhstan for rare earth supplies

November 21, 2012

New report: DRC’s Kabila could be toppled within weeks

DRC president Kabila will likely be violently removed from office should protests in major cities escalate and last longer than one week, according to a report from Exclusive Analysis, a…