Showing posts with label rare earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rare earth. Show all posts

Delays hurt rare earth company Molycorp


Molycorp Inc. owner of the largest rare-earth deposit outside China, reported a wider-than-expected loss after the company missed a production target and prices for the commodities declined.
The fourth-quarter net loss was $359.6 million, or $2.91 a share, the Greenwood Village, Colorado-based company said yesterday in a statement after the close of trading. The company reported net income of $26.6 million or 26 cents a year earlier.

Rare earth company cleared to drill for rare earth minerals in Idaho


U.S. Rare Earth's said Thursday that it will begin core sample drilling in the Sheep Creek area on Lemhi Pass in May. Rare earth minerals are key ingredients in advanced electronics like cellphones, wind turbines and hybrid car batteries. Of the 14 minerals in the category, nine are used in cellphones.





Call for more public consultation on Jamaica's rare earth elements pilot plant

The planned construction of a pilot plant to process rare earth minerals in one of the most sought after green areas of the capital city will go ahead despite opposition from environmental advocates who insist that there must be public consultation.

The Future Of AC Motors and Rare Earth Elements

Rare earth metals have invaded the 21st century and things will never be the same again. Most of modern day technology gadgets, tools, equipment and vehicles make used of rare earth metals in order to functions. Imagine the cell phones, laptops, tablets, TVs, wind turbines, solar cells and hybrid cars without rare earth metals, just simply not possible.


London Commodity Markets - Rare earth mineral firm waiting for data from Alaskan mine

Ucore Rare Metals Inc. hopes to soon have a better measure of its rare earth mineral resource in Alaska.
“It should lift our level of assuredness from inferred (resources) to indicated and measured,” Mark MacDonald, the Bedford company’s vice-president of business development, said Tuesday in an interview.
The company expects the resource update in about a month, MacDonald said.