June 19, 2023

Lynas’ Kalgoorlie facility faces labour shortages

Lynas is racing to complete construction of the plant to handle cracking and leaching.

June 16, 2023

Critical material prices are recovering but the outlook is mixed

New report says lithium, nickel sulphate and rare earth prices are set to recover sharply but graphite, magnesium and titanium markets are in for more pain.

June 13, 2023

Nominee to be next US ambassador to Malaysia sees rare earths potential

Edgard Kagan, a career diplomat, told his Senate confirmation hearing that developing new sources for critical minerals was a very high priority.

June 12, 2023

Hastings Technology Metals to supply rare earths to Neo Performance

Deal is to negotiate the supply of rare earth concentrate from Hasting’s Yangibana project in Western Australia.

June 12, 2023

LKAB raises deposit estimate at Europe’s biggest rare earth find

The European Commission wants to speed up the development of new mines like Per Geijer to end its dependence.

June 9, 2023

Norway considers opening Germany-sized area to deep-sea mining

The country’s energy ministry plans to submit to parliament in the next two weeks a proposal to open an area close to Svalbard to applications for exploration and extraction.

June 9, 2023

Altona Rare Earths shares start trading in London

Altona, which is advancing the Monte Muambe rare earths project in northwest Mozambique, raised $2.5 million.

June 8, 2023

Namibia bans export of unprocessed critical minerals

The southern African country has significant deposits of lithium as well as rare earth minerals.

June 7, 2023

Mongolian PM discusses EV investment, cooperation with Elon Musk

Musk and the Mongolian government talked about a potential joint research venture on the use of rare earth elements and battery minerals.

June 6, 2023

Defense Metals completes next phase of pilot plant tests, starts prefeasibility design

The PFS is to be complete during the first half of 2024.