April 23, 2014

Night of the living dead miners: rare earth ‘zombies’ attack ASX, TSX

In 2010, rare earth and specialty metals market froth had speculators throwing money at a sector they didn't understand, and opportunistic resource company managers stepped up to take their money.

April 20, 2014

US first rare earth mine in decades may be in Wyoming

At the moment about 90% of the world’s rare earths —used in a variety of industries including green technology, defence systems and consumer electronics— come from China.

April 20, 2014

Scientists find ‘easy’ way to extract rare earths from seafloor

The new method simplifies the process and may push miners to try securing more licences to explore the seabed.

April 18, 2014

We have to talk about Fanya Metal Exchange

The rare earth storm has passed, but a new critical metal conundrum could be ahead for the West.

April 16, 2014

Sales at world’s largest rare earth firm halves, profits evaporate

Baotou says WTO ruling will only increase pain for the industry.

April 15, 2014

Let’s talk about: women in the mining industry

While still a male-dominated sector, there have been positive steps to integrate women into the mining industry.

April 10, 2014

Pele Mountain enters into access agreement to sample Elliot Lake Mine tailings for rare earths

Pele has entered into an access agreement with Rio Algom granting Pele the right, at its cost, to access and take samples from one or more of RAL’s Elliot Lake,…

April 7, 2014

Matchmaking miners and China’s $7 trillion in savings

Only last year Chinese overseas investment totalled $61.6 billion by the end of September.

April 6, 2014

On the surface, mining the moon doesn’t look that great

Looking at lunar REE

April 2, 2014

Stephan Bogner and the rise of a Euro-Chino-Russian superpower

In this interview with The Mining Report, Bogner details what these shifting power dynamics will mean for the commodities market.