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Category: Rare Earths

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  • China
  • Rare Earths

The West’s Rare Earth Rush Is Being Threatened By Ongoing Energy Crisis

The West’s race to reduce reliance on Chinese rare earths is facing headwinds. Europe’s ongoing energy crisis has forced smelters and producers to shut down. Ionic Rare Earths has just Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Oct 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths
  • Ukraine

Russia’s attack on Ukraine halts half of world’s neon output for chips

Ukraine’s two leading suppliers of neon, which produce about half the world’s supply of the key ingredient for making chips, have halted their operations as Moscow has sharpened its attack Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Mar 2022 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Rare Earths

China merges 3 rare earths miners to strengthen dominance of sector

China has approved the merger of three leading rare earths companies, creating a state-owned powerhouse that will be the world’s largest producer of the strategic resource and strengthen government control Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Dec 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Rare Earths

MIT study attributes > 50% of Li-ion rapid cost decline to investment in materials & chemistry R&D

The cost of Li-ion batteries has plunged some 97% since their introduction three decades ago—a rate similar to the drop in solar panel prices. A team at MIT has analyzed Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Nov 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

Compass Minerals confirms successful conversion testing of Great Salt Lake lithium brine resource to battery-grade lithium hydroxide

Compass Minerals, a leading global provider of essential minerals, announced the successful, third-party conversion testing of its lithium brine resource into both lithium carbonate and battery-grade lithium hydroxide, representing a Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Oct 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths
  • USA

Biden Could Give Rare Earth Miners A Major Boost

A global shortage in semiconductor chips has been wreaking havoc on diverse sectors, including the tech, automotive, consumer electronics industries, and everything in between. After years of tepid demand, the Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Sep 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

Scientists develop ‘cheap and easy’ method to extract lithium from seawater

(Reference image by Benjamín Núñez González, Wikimedia Commons). To address this issue, the team led by Zhiping Lai tried a method that had never been used before to extract lithium Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Jun 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

The World Is Facing A Lithium Supply Crunch As Demand Soars

In just one year, the world’s largest lithium producers turned from cautiously optimistic about prices and very careful about expansion projects to decisively bullish on near, medium, and long-term demand Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 May 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Rare Earths
  • USA

Can The U.S. Reduce Its Dependency On Chinese Rare Earths?

Since the days of President Jimmy Carter and the 1970s oil crisis, the United States has relentlessly pursued the utopia of energy independence. But persistent oil crises, severe oil price Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Canada
  • Rare Earths

Canada Set To Build $23 Million Rare Earth Plant

Canada will have rare earth processing plant in operation by the end of 2022 as the province of Saskatchewan has committed C$31 million (about $24m) to build the facility , Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Germany
  • Rare Earths

German Scientists Find New Way To Extract Lithium

Researchers at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed an environmentally friendly process to extract lithium from the salty thermal water reservoirs that are located in the Upper Rhine Trench. Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths
  • USA

U.S. Looks For Ways To Boost Rare Earths Mining

The US House of Representatives launched a bipartisan caucus on Friday to focus on ways to increase domestic production of specialised minerals used to make missiles, cell phones and other Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Rare Earths

Will China Use Its Nuclear Option As Tensions With The U.S. Escalate?

In the latest round of feuding between the world’s leading economies, China has vowed to retaliate after the United States ordered its consulate in Houston shut within 72 hours. Although Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Rare Earths

This Unknown Metal May Be A Game-Changer For Space Travel

A single event just made an already critical metal that’s been cornered by China worth more than ever. For the first time in a decade, SpaceX and NASA last weekend Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths
  • USA

U.S. Launches Tool to Stake Claim to World’s Rare Earth Minerals

In a high-tech twist on hammering pickets into the ground, the U.S. State Department has helped launch an online tool aimed at staking America’s claim to many of the world’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

The Metal Trump Wants More Than Gold

China has a monopoly on one of the most strategic metals on the planet, and Washington is anxious to change that. Global dominance at this point in the game means Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Coal
  • Rare Earths

Extracting rare earth elements from coal with plasma assist

Rare earth elements (REEs) are vital materials for modern technologies. The US National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) is collaborating with the University of Kentucky and their subcontractor Virginia Tech to Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

Exclusive: Pentagon races to track U.S. rare earths output amid China trade dispute

The Pentagon is rapidly assessing the United States’ rare earths capability in a race to secure stable supply of the specialized material amid the country’s trade conflict with China, which Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Jul 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

Weapon of choice? China rare earth prices soar on their potential role in trade war

Chinese rare earth prices are set to climb further beyond multi-year highs hit following a flurry of state media reports that Beijing could weaponize its supply-dominance of the prized minerals Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

U.S. Scrambles To Find Alternatives For Chinese Rare Earth Metals

With Beijing making louder noise by the day about using rare earth metals as a “nuclear” retaliation option in trade war with the US, Washington is not sitting on its Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Rare Earths

Exclusive: Pentagon eyes rare earth supplies in Africa in push away from China

The U.S. Department of Defense has held talks with Malawi’s Mkango Resources Ltd and other rare earth miners across the globe about their supplies of strategic minerals, part of a Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple

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