January 4, 2012

REE International in Advanced Negotiations to Acquire Mining Property in Bolivia

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - Jan 4, 2012) - REE International, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: REEI) (the "Company"), a U.S. based mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and production of rare earth elements,…

January 4, 2012

Rare Element Resources up 15 percent after announcing a 38 percent increase in measured and indicated resources

Rare Element Resources' stock was up 15.17% from its opening price today to $4.13 a share after announcing results of an updated NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource estimate showing a measured…

January 3, 2012

Wind turbine prices drop one-third in the last four years

Wind turbine prices have dropped nearly one-third since 2008 according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

January 3, 2012

Molycorp says more than 75% of phase 1 production at Mountain Pass committed

Molycorp Inc. (MCP) reported that more than three-quarters of the Phase 1 rare-earth production at its flagship California manufacturing facility has been […]

January 1, 2012

Molycorp CEO Doubles Down On Shares Even As The Market Doubts Increase

On August 15th, Mark Smith, the president and CEO of rare earth producer Molycorp (MCP), made one of the strangest insider purchases I have ever observed. Just two months earlier…

January 1, 2012

Natural disasters, gold price among Top Mining Stories of 2011

2011 will go down as the year when the wind fell out of the sails of economic recovery and serious storm clouds gathered on the horizon.

December 28, 2011

Lynas LampsUp-WA rare earths EPC contract

Forge Group subsidiary Abesque Engineering has received a Letter of Award for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning Assistance (EPC) contract for Lynas Corp's LampsUp-WA project near Laverton in Western…

December 27, 2011

Critical reading for rare earth metals investors

Rare earth element coverage has exploded since The Gold Report started covering this sector in early 2009. At that point, the REE junior mining market was a $2 billion industry.…

December 27, 2011

China says 2012 rare earths export quotas will be unchanged

China has set the first tranche of rare earths export quotas for 2012 with more in reserve for firms that have not yet passed inspections. The biggest producer Baotou Rare…

December 23, 2011

DOE report finds 5 clean-energy related REEs at risk in short-term

The substantial capex required for the development of a rare earths mine, compounded by major miners' lack of interest in mining rare earths, may spell trouble in meeting future demand.