The British Columbia-based company aims to begin engineering design and economic analysis of a 3-5 tonne per day commercial demonstration plant for 2020.

Western powers will attend talks in Brussels next week on curbing China's dominance of rare earths and other critical resources and EU officials will present their vision to create entire green supply chains.

As coal prices tumble and bankruptcies rise, a few US miners are still pushing ahead with plans to expand.

The company is aiming to produce nickel sulphates at the Tamarack project.

A private-public Integrated Test Center aims to create solutions to reuse the CO2 released by coal-fired power plants.