Rare Earth Top Stories

Australia tells the world it is open for business when it comes to critical minerals

The Australian Critical Minerals Prospectus states that the country has a commercial opportunity to build competitive critical minerals export markets.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | November 8, 2020 | 7:30 am

MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

China to expand ban on Australian imports to copper; Rio…

MINING.com Editor | November 6, 2020 | 10:23 am

Tanzania finalizing permit for its first rare earth mine

The East African nation plans to increase mineral earnings by…

Bloomberg News | November 5, 2020 | 8:15 am

Australian Strategic Materials acquires Korean JV partner

The Western Australia-based company is now the main shareholder at…

MINING.COM Staff Writer | November 4, 2020 | 6:20 am

Rainbow, Bosveld to develop SA rare earths project

The Phalaborwa rare earths project contains about 35 million tonnes…

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 3, 2020 | 10:10 am

Mitsui to build desalination plant for BHP’s Spence copper mine in Chile

The project will be the Japanese company’s first desalination plant and it is estimated to require an investment of around $623 million (70 billion Yen).

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 12, 2017 | 9:02 am

Graphite seeing some upward movement

The graphite market has shown its first sign of life in a few years with some upward price pressure.

Streetwise Reports | October 5, 2017 | 2:55 pm

Mexico’s mining sector to reach $17.8bn by 2020 on zinc prices, strong pipeline

Competitive operating costs and supportive government policies are also expected to play a key role in Mexico's mining industry strong recovery.

Cecilia Jamasmie | October 5, 2017 | 5:32 am

Chinese EV market nearing 2% penetration

Plug-in-vehicle market in China surges to a record 1.8% of total passenger vehicle sales.

Andrew Topf | October 1, 2017 | 4:22 pm

Chile sees no obstacle to Albemarle request to hike lithium output cap

Albemarle said it could invest $1-billion in Chile over the next 5 years if request to the government to let it extract 125,000 tonnes per year is approved.

Reuters | September 28, 2017 | 2:14 am

Brazil’s president revokes decree allowing mining in Amazon

It would have opened up for mining a vast national reserve in the country’s Amazon, larger than the size of Switzerland.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 26, 2017 | 6:55 am

BHP says 2017 a ‘tipping point’ for electric cars

Arnoud Balhuizen, head of marketing at BHP, said the impact of the looming electric vehicle boom for raw materials producers would be felt first in the metals markets and only later in oil.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 26, 2017 | 3:09 am

PotashCorp hires banks to lead sale of stake in Chilean lithium producer

Rumours point at US chemical company Albenarle Corporation as the first potential buyer for PotashCorp interest in SQM, worth about $4.5 billion.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 25, 2017 | 11:15 am

Johnson Matthey to invest 200m pounds in battery material technology

The specialty chemicals company said the overall market "could be (worth) more than $30 billion (in) sales when battery electric vehicle penetration increases to around 10 percent.

Reuters | September 22, 2017 | 11:14 am

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