Rare Earth Top Stories

China’s slowdown is miners’ single biggest fear this year — report

Based on answers from 51 senior executives, lawyers White & Case say that trade tensions are the second largest challenge for the mining industry in 2019 and reveal what the underlying full-picture looks like.

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 18, 2019 | 2:50 am

Chinese maker of $20,000 electric cars set to crack US market

Kandi Technologies Group Inc. may become the first to crack…

Bloomberg News | January 17, 2019 | 12:02 pm

LME to launch seven new contracts on March 11, lithium due in Q4

“We believe that these new cash-settled contracts... will help lower…

Reuters | January 17, 2019 | 9:36 am

Cornish secures further funding to build lithium mine in UK

The funds will enable the company to expand activities in…

Cecilia Jamasmie | January 17, 2019 | 9:00 am

Pimco favors ‘unloved’ platinum that’s looking cheap to gold

Platinum could be the dark horse among precious metals, according…

Bloomberg News | January 16, 2019 | 8:49 am

China to search for rare earths in the Moon

The “Jade Rabbit,” China's first lunar rover, is equipped with a round-penetrating radar to measure the Moon's soil and crust.

Cecilia Jamasmie | December 2, 2013 | 8:01 pm

Don’t disrupt our famous breeding: Aussie zoo to miner

Alkane Resources' zirconium and rare earths project, if approved, would be built near Dubbo.

MINING.com Editor | December 2, 2013 | 4:52 am

INFOGRAPHIC: Venture crisis

For a free market to be successful, capital must be able to flow to new ideas and endeavours.

Visa Bureau | December 1, 2013 | 10:19 am

High profits or low profits, tensions with governments rise

Over the past decade, the number of disputes that have resulted in international arbitration has increased tenfold for the oil and gas sector and fourfold for the mining industry. And these conflicts will only escalate.

Ana Komnenic | November 28, 2013 | 8:09 pm

Global exploration budgets down 29% in 2013

Canada accounted for just over 13% of the total, the smallest share in 14 years. The DRC made it to the top 10 mining destinations for the first time.

Cecilia Jamasmie | November 27, 2013 | 5:55 pm