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 Metal recycling essential to electronics future

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The U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory has been working to improve the recycling process for rare earth metals, which are important for energy technology across the world.

Japan aims for half of rare earth metals supplies from outside China

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Japan is to diversify its sources of rare earth metals away from China and expects to get half its supplies of the elements from countries other than China from the middle of next year, Trade Minister Yukio Edano said on Monday.

London Commodity Markets takes a closer look at China

Although the geographical size of China is perhaps not that difficult for North Americans to appreciate, their population is another matter. As China has become the second-largest economy in the world, it is without question transformed into an enormous force in the world’s commodity markets; so much so, in fact, that the recent commodity supercycle is now generally seen as a byproduct of China’s emergence.

Rare Earth Miner Solo International begin prospecting in Quebec

Solo International an exploration and development mining company with a focus on deposits of rare earth metals and rare earth elements, has completed its initial survey which consisted of prospecting and locating historic apatite mine sites and sampling of the mine sites located.
 

London Commodity Markets News - Quest for Rare Earth Elements

Rare Earth Elements miner Quest Rare Minerals

Quest Rare Minerals is a well-funded Canadian-based mineral exploration and development company focused on the discovery and development of world-class Rare Earth Element (REE) deposits at its two prospective rare earth element properties located in Québec and Newfoundland, both some of the best mining jurisdictions in the world.

London Commodity Markets - India to sign rare earth metals pact with Japan

Manmohan Singh

(Times of India) NEW DELHI: Rare earth metals is the next big thing. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to sign an inter-governmental agreement with Japan if he travels to Tokyo in November. The umbrella pact is expected to start in earnest joint development of rare earths metals in India. Also as a strategic move, it brings Japan even closer to India, becoming what Singh calls a "transformational" relationship. Japan's internal politics and its election schedules, have, as a result, become a matter of deep interest in the Indian government. The only thing that could delay a PM trip is an election in Japan.But notwithstanding frequent political changes in Japan, Singh has insisted on meeting every Japanese leader because he believes the Japan relationship to be bigger than the current party in power.

London Commodity Markets: Jack Lifton on Western rare earth metal extraction

Jack Lifton

Got a rare earth metals deposit? Great. Got a mine? Even better. But do you have a processing plant? No? That could be a problem.
The market doesn't understand how complex and expensive solid-phase rare earth extraction can be, but Metals Consultant Jack Lifton is here to put it into layman's terms in this interview with The Critical Metals Report.
Jack Lifton discusses processing innovations from North America, Germany and India that are changing the cost picture. He even names some companies that could see huge changes in their bottom lines in the coming years.