July 26, 2022

Column: Where there’s muck there’s brass … and critical minerals

The green future, it turns out, can be achieved at least in part by cleaning up the mining legacy of the past.

July 26, 2022

Rare earths-free thermoelectric converters now viable – research

Researchers have developed a new material to avoid using rare earths in heat-to-energy conversion devices.

July 26, 2022

Greenland Minerals to fight draft rejection of mining permit for rare earths project

The miner will object the draft decision as it relies on a ban on uranium mining, which is being contested separately through arbitration.

July 22, 2022

Pensana starts building UK’s first rare earths refinery

The rare earth processing hub is backed by the government as part of its first critical minerals strategy, unveiled today.

July 17, 2022

Ancient piece of earth’s crust defines location of economically important minerals

The almost four billion-year-old piece of the earth's crust lies beneath the southwestern part of Western Australia.

July 13, 2022

US says it will back miners to stop China’s weaponization of battery metals

Developers of battery metals projects can win support from the US government as it seeks to counter the dominance of China in clean-technology supply chains.

July 12, 2022

US says it is concerned critical minerals vulnerable to manipulation

Energy Secretary said the government is concerned that supplies of critical minerals could be subject to weaponisation as oil and gas have been amid the Ukraine conflict.

July 8, 2022

Top 50 mining stocks lose $600bn in market value from peak

After a brutal second quarter, investors in the world’s 50 biggest mining companies are in full retreat as metal prices slump and uncertainty grips the sector.     

July 8, 2022

Canada’s first rare earths producer reports first run at plant beats expectations

The DMS unit achieved 75.2% recovery, processing ~2,300kg of concentrate mined at Vital’s Nechalacho rare earth project in the Northwest Territories .

July 7, 2022

New 3D geological model expected to help guide exploration of rare earth elements

The model targets alkaline igneous systems, which host many of the world's REE deposits.