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Rare Element Resources' stock was up 15.17% from its opening price today to $4.13 a share after announcing results of an updated NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource estimate showing a measured and indicated mineral resource of 6.8 million tons at 3.75% rare earth oxides at its Bear Lodge Property in Wyoming, USA.

Wind turbine prices have dropped nearly one-third since 2008 according to a study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Molycorp Inc. (MCP) reported that more than three-quarters of the Phase 1 rare-earth production at its flagship California manufacturing facility has been […]

2011 will go down as the year when the wind fell out of the sails of economic recovery and serious storm clouds gathered on the horizon.

China has set the first tranche of rare earths export quotas for 2012 with more in reserve for firms that have not yet passed inspections. The biggest producer Baotou Rare Earth is still awaiting environmental approval

The substantial capex required for the development of a rare earths mine, compounded by major miners' lack of interest in mining rare earths, may spell trouble in meeting future demand.

Rare earth producer Molycorp (MCP) said Friday it has been granted U.S. government authorization to begin exploratory drilling for heavy rare earth minerals in Mountain Pass, California.

Cows shrinking to the point they turn into cats and villagers wrapped in do-it-yourself anti-radiation suits are only some of the effects of allowingAustralia's Lynas Corporation to open a rare earths plant inMalaysia, according to not-so-subtle protest short satirical films populating YouTube these days.

Toyota Tsusho Corp., the trading company of the Asia’s largest automaker, will help accelerate production of rare-earth metals for Canadian mining company Matamec Explorations Inc. and buy all the output from its Kipawa mine.