Rare Earth Elements
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Rainbow, Bosveld to develop rare earths project in South Africa
Africa-focused Rainbow Rare Earths (LSE: RBW) has signed an agreement with Bosveld Phosphates to co-develop the Phalaborwa rare earths project in South Africa. The asset contains about 35 million tonnes of gypsum resulting from historic phosphate hard rock mining, containing…
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JV Article: Appia Energy advances its rare earths project in Saskatchewan
Appia Energy is finding the types of REEs that are in demand, and in quantities that can be profitably produced, at its Alces Lake property in northern Saskatchewan. After the September announcement by the Government of Saskatchewan that it would…
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Trump issues new order to spur rare earths mining
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring a national emergency in the mining industry, a move that seeks to curb the country’s reliance on rare earths in his latest bid to end China’s control of the market.…
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Canada to get rare earth processing plant in 2022
Canada will have rare earth processing plant in operation by the end of 2022 as the province of Saskatchewan has committed $31 million (about US$24 million) to build the facility, which aims at boosting domestic supply of the key ingredients for…
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CRITICAL MINERALS: Rio Tinto extracts high-purity scandium in Quebec
QUEBEC – Rio Tinto has developed a way to extract high-purity scandium oxide from waste at its titanium dioxide production facilities in Quebec. The company has been using the new process, developed by researchers at the company’s Rio Tinto Fer…
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RARE EARTHS: Focus Graphite sells Kwyjibo stake for $7.2M
QUEBEC – Focus Graphite has sold its 50% stake in the Kwyjibo rare earth element deposit to Investissement Québec, a financing corporation that exists to facilitate investment in Quebec, for $7.2 million. The agreement on the project, located 125 km northeast of…
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SURVEY: Canadians want to seize opportunity in critical metals
TORONTO — Coinciding with National Mining Week, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has released a new national poll that highlights public enthusiasm for Canada to grow market share as a preferred global supplier of critical minerals, based on abundance…
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RARE EARTHS: Ucore to assess RapidSX separation technology
HALIFAX – Ucore Rare Metals has signed an agreement to test Innovation Metals Corp.’s RapidSX REE separation technology to process mineralization from its Bokan-Dotsan Ridge rare earth elements project in southeast Alaska. Developed by IMC with US$1.8 million from the…
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REPORT: McKinsey outlines climate risks
A new report by global consultancy McKinsey & Co. looks at three key questions the mining sector needs to address in light of climate change. Entitled Climate risk and decarbonization: What every mining CEO needs to know, the report details…
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RARE EARTHS: U.S. Geological Survey maps REE deposit in Mountain Pass region
CALIFORNIA – In a report published on the online journal Geosphere, scientists from the US Geological Survey mapped a rare earth element (REE) deposit of magmatic carbonatite located in the Mountain Pass region of the eastern Mojave Desert, some 97 km southwest of…
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Metals Commentary: 5G technology should boost demand for gallium, cobalt
During the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) in Egypt in November, thousands of delegates from more than 100 countries adopted a treaty that moves the world closer to fifth generation (5G) technology, which will require a massive deployment of mobile wireless…
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RARE EARTHS: Appia believes Saskatchewan property hosts highest grade REE discoveries in the world
SASKATCHEWAN – Appia Energy reports that the Alces Lake property in northern Saskatchewan is host to some of the highest grade rare earth element discoveries in the world, including 49.16% total rare earth oxide over 3.7 metres less than 10 metres from surface in drill…
