Tesla warns of coming battery minerals shortage

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Better production numbers at its California mine couldn't stop the red ink at rare earth miner.

The plug should be pulled on these marginal junior miners, say investors.

Beijing has a new strategy to tighten its grip on the rare earth supply chain. And it's working.

The sharp fall in global commodity prices is starting to have an impact on North Korea, economists say, hurting a state that relies heavily on exports of minerals to keep its economy afloat – and its gargantuan military funded.

The era of rare earth elements export quotas and tariffs in China will soon be over and that could ultimately mean a new era of higher prices for REEs inside China, says Gareth Hatch, founding principal of Technology Metals Research and president of Innovation Metals Corp.

New World Gold Corp. executives say that since the discovery several companies, including a Chinese group, have approached them with offers.

Global exploration spending dropped 26% in last year, compared with 2013, as several juniors threw in the towel and producing miners slammed the brakes on capital and exploration expenditure.

Namibia and Botswana top the latest mining investment attractiveness index for the continent and move into top 25 worldwide.