April 5, 2010

Katanga Mining targets big copper/cobalt expansion

Katanga Mining ups the ante, aims for rapid ramp up to 300,000 tonnes a year of copper, and around 15,000 tonnes of cobalt.

March 18, 2010

Rare Earths R&D funding critical to stemming brain drain in U.S. materials manufacturing

If the U.S. fails to re-establish domestic rare earth mineral supplies and fund REE R&D, meeting domestic energy, healthcare and transportation needs may be difficult, a top GE scientist says.

March 16, 2010

Avalon wins environmental and social responsibility award for Thor Lake rare earth project

Avalon Rare Metals received the 2010 Environmental & Social Responsibility Award at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention in Toronto last week for its community engagement efforts…

March 16, 2010

Verderflex pumps help cobalt purification in Morocco

Verderflex has recently exported 30 of its VF hose pumps to a cobalt operation in Morocco for transfer of sulphuric acid and ammonia solutions from storage and dilution tanks to…

March 5, 2010

MINERAL PROCESSING: Hydromet tested for Ferguson Lake ore

NUNAVUT – Starfield Resources of Montreal has asked SGS Lakefield Research to develop a hydrometallurgical process for recovering metal from the massive […]

March 4, 2010

The fortunes of iron ore and its many good bedmates

The broad, heavy, heave continues towards integrated steelmakers, and upstream to iron ore, coking coal, manganese, nickel, and even molybdenum and cobalt.

December 11, 2009

Jack Lifton: Safeguarding Our Future Supply of Rare Earths

Source: The Gold Report; interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher 12/11/2009 http://www.theaureport.com/pub/na/3394 “Price may not be as important as security of supply,” says Jack […]

July 21, 2009

New technology to recover nickel and cobalt: the Shanshan process

Heron Resources reports that a feasibility study is investigating the potential to process 1 Mt/y of nickel laterite ore from the Yerilla project, producing 80,000 t/y of nickel concentrate, containing…

July 17, 2009

Project News paints a diverse metals and minerals picture

Latest issue of International Mining Project News available (July 17): This issue we cover a wide variety of minerals and metals ranging from the usual batch of iron ore, cobalt,…

February 9, 2009

BacTech, Haileybury School of Mines to offer unique program

With a proposed pilot plant in nearby Cobalt, BacTech Mining Corporation has teamed up with the Haileybury School of Mines to create […]