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.

March 7, 2013

The UK goes after a piece of the Afghan $1 trillion mining pie

The government has set up a three-year, $15 million plan to back mining and oil and gas projects in Afghanistan.

March 6, 2013

Money worries weigh on juniors at PDAC

"We have a crisis."