Rare Earth Top Stories

Top 50 mining companies in 2022: coal, lithium win big, China investors lose out

Commodity prices are always volatile, but in 2022 metal and mining markets reached new levels of turbulence, as the pandemic played out in China and the Ukraine war upended global energy.

Frik Els | January 9, 2023 | 11:16 am

NioCorp demo plant in Quebec boasts high rare earth recoveries

The extraction process also revealed only two significant impurities of…

Staff Writer | January 4, 2023 | 11:20 am

How coal mine drainage can become a source of rare earths

Researchers have patented a new process that neutralizes coal drainage…

Staff Writer | January 4, 2023 | 7:15 am

US, allies should disconnect rare earths supply chain from China — report

A Rice University report suggests that policymakers in the US…

Staff Writer | January 3, 2023 | 7:24 am

Tesla, Toyota interested in Chilean REEs

The carmakers have expressed interest in the products that may…

Staff Writer | December 27, 2022 | 11:50 am

Energy Fuels to start rare earth recovery in Utah

The first shipments of natural monazite ore have arrived at the White Mesa mill in Utah.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 10, 2021 | 9:42 am

Neo Performance eyes expansion of European rare earth processing plant

European officials expect the continent's demand for specialized minerals to jump as much as tenfold by 2050.

Reuters | March 10, 2021 | 8:02 am

Western Rare Earths gets drill permit for La Paz project in Arizona

The company believes the topography at La Paz lends itself to substantially increase the resource by deeper drilling in the lower plate.

MINING.COM Staff Writer | March 10, 2021 | 6:07 am

China Jan-Feb rare earth exports up nearly 30% y/y

Exports from China totalled 7,068 tonnes in January and February combined.

Reuters | March 8, 2021 | 6:30 am

China to “strengthen management” of strategic mineral resources, eyes green upgrade of steel

China aims to complete ultra-low emission upgrade for 530 million tonnes of steel capacity.

Reuters | March 5, 2021 | 8:09 am

Five Eyes alliance urged to forge ties with Greenland to secure minerals

Greenland has huge deposits of rare earths.

Reuters | March 4, 2021 | 8:16 am

Rare earth, uranium miners benefit from EV mania and dash of ESG

Uranium sector supply/demand balance is the tightest we’ve seen since pre-Fukushima, analyst says.

Bloomberg News | March 3, 2021 | 9:06 am

Mining magnets: Arctic island finds green power can be a curse

Companies are racing for approval to dig into what the USGS calls the world’s biggest undeveloped deposits of rare earth.

Reuters | March 2, 2021 | 9:21 am

Webequie Nation, Juno ink MOU for Ring of Fire exploration

Juno is the largest claim holder within the Ring of Fire, a metal rich region in northern Ontario.

MINING.com Editor | March 1, 2021 | 12:25 pm

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