Caterpillar steps up game to keep leadership in North America
In the past two years, Cat has been working on growing its offering, particularly in the underground segment, as well as filling up some gaps in terms of trucks sizes.
The mining of rare earth minerals in the Caribbean nation of Jamaica has come a step closer after its government gave the go-ahead to the feasibility study for a proposed extraction project
Molycorp is down 22% after putting on hold production expansion. Yesterday the miner gave money for a new $120 million institute tasked with finding alternatives to the very stuff it is mining.
Scientists from Japan plan to search the floor of the Pacific Ocean for rare earth deposits in bid to reduce the nation's dependence on China for the key industrial materials