Lynas Corp’s Malaysia plant shut down until 2019

Lowly lead predicted to be 2014's best performing metal.

The company has mining claims in Idaho, Montana, and Colorado totaling 20,000 acres.

Rare earth elements have wide commercial applications.

The U.S. company announced two of the final milestones in a $1.25 billion modernization and expansion at its main mine, Mountain Pass in California.

Explorer advancing what would be Canada's first rare earth mine is up 80% in three months.

The government is fine tuning details of an aggressive campaign to promote Canada’s mining sector abroad, and so redirect trade spending and foreign affairs to core economic interests.

"The power is shifting again from financial centres to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities: raw materials and natural resources."

Both companies and legal experts have criticized extensively some of the clauses, which it makes the law "unconstitutional."

"We’re much closer to the bottom of this cycle than you imagine. This is not the end of the super-cycle."