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Switched reluctance motors to make their debut on electric bicycles

Japan turns to Kazakhstan for rare earth supplies

Oil, gas and mining companies' request to have transparency rules put on hold under 2010 financial reform act has been rejected.

Rare earth producer is down more than 13% after SEC launches formal investigation into the accuracy of the company's public disclosures.

Rare earth producer Molycorp reported a Q3 loss on Thursday, but investors liked top line growth that jumped 49% to $205.6 million.

Australia's Lynas Corp (ASX:LYC) won Thursday the latest of a series of long-dragged legal battles against activists, which took the company to court for allegedly causing major health and environmental damages to the Malaysian population.

Molycorp Inc. (NYSE:MCP), one of the only non-Chinese producers of rare earths, has sued the engineering company responsible for designing the chemical processes at its troubled Project Phoenix for over $45 million in damages.

Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is 1.1 billion people...The Chinese government is in a similar position.

Scientists from France's Ecole Polytechnique have developed a remarkable new technology which extracts trace amounts of gold from industrial waste water.