April 6, 2011 Molycorp’s $89m deal for AS Silmet doubles REO production capacity The US$89 million shares-and-cash acquisition of Estonia's AS Silmet by Colorado's Molycorp means both rare earth companies "will be able to take advantage of the very robust price situation in…
April 5, 2011 Molycorp’s $89m deal for AS Silmet doubles REO production capacity As Molycorp refurbishes and ramps up its Mountain Pass facility, the company hopes the acquisition of Estonia’s AS Silmet provides a short-term […]
April 4, 2011 Molycorp Signs R&D Agreement with Ames Molycorp has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with the US Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. Molycorp will team-up with […]
April 3, 2011 Rare earth metals are becoming rarer and more attractive Not too long ago in our national history, mining for rare earths (Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals (REMX) was an American enterprise. […]
April 1, 2011 China bumps up rare earth export quota China has increased its 2011 rare earth export quota, says an article by International Business Times: China has set its total output of rare earth at 93,800 tonnes this year,…
April 1, 2011 Greenland may become an important player in global rare earth Although Greenland has been known as a source of uranium for many years, its recent development as a base for rare earth extraction could not be much timelier.
March 31, 2011 Rare earth headlines from China should push Molycorp higher On Wednesday, shares of Molycorp (MCP), which controls one of the world’s largest and richest rare earth deposits at its facility in Mountain Pass, California, fell despite a news announcement…
March 25, 2011 Markets quake The metals markets were briefly sidetracked by the Japanese earthquake and subsequent nuclear emergency. Gold did not know whether to go up or down in response to the damage wrought…
March 25, 2011 China to increase rare earth tax from April – Xinhua China will increase a tax on rare earths from April 1, the official Xinhua News Agency said on Thursday. The State Administration of Taxation website carried a local media report,…
March 22, 2011 Chinese rare earth exports burst through 100,000 tonne mark in Feb China's exports of rare earth metals burst through the $100,000-per-tonne mark for the first time in February, up almost ninefold from a year before, while the volume of trade stayed…
Italy seeks over $8 billion in damages from ArcelorMittal over ILVA steelworks, FT reports Acciaierie d'Italia has sued over alleged mismanagement of the steelworks. January 12, 2026 | 01:23 pm
