Shares of Lynas Corp. (LYC-A, LYSDY-O) closed 19% higher at A$1.59 on the Australian Stock Exchange following news that, after a year of delay, Malaysia has approved a temporary operating licence for the rare earth separation plant the company…
Over the last month Great Western Minerals (GWG-T) has completed a joint-venture with the Chinese to build a rare earth separation plant near its Steenkampskraal mine in South Africa, about 350 km north of Capetown, and successfully carried out…
U.S. rare earths producer Molycorp (MCP-N) is giving Chile-based Molibdenos y Metales (Molymet) 12.5 million shares in exchange for US$390 million. That works out to US$31.20 apiece – a 10% premium to Molycorp’s 20-day volume weighted average…
Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-N) has reported production of 253,000 attributable gold oz. in the fourth quarter of 2011, the company’s best quarter of the year. Full-year production, including the company’s production from discontinued businesses, was…
Northern Freegold Resources (NFR-V) has added significantly to the overall resource at its Freegold Mountain project in Yukon thanks to an initial resource on its Revenue deposit.
London, U.K. — In northern England, the rolling hills and purple heather of the North Yorkshire Moors are more associated with tourism these days than with the area’s long-shut iron ore mines and blast furnaces. Where mining and industrial…
National elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have held up African Metals (AFR-V) in the development of its Luisha South copper and cobalt project.
The board of Huckleberry Mines – in which Imperial Metals (III-T) holds a 50% stake, and a consortium of Asian companies (Materials, Marubeni, Dowa Mining and Furukawa) owns the remainder – has approved a plan to extend the life of its…
Shares of Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-V, QRM-X) closed 25% higher at $3.23 per share on Jan. 12 after the junior announced that heavy rare earth oxides represented 22.4% to 76.5% of rare earth oxides intersected during the company’s Strange Lake…
In an updated resource estimate that includes less than half of the new assay results from holes drilled in 2011, Rare Element Resources (RES-T) has boosted the measured and indicated resources of its Bear Lodge rare earths project in Wyoming…
Globex Mining (GMX-T) got a boost to its market cap after announcing results from its Turner Falls rare earth project in Quebec.
Baja Mining (BAJ-T) has tested the first of three 2.5-megawatt power generators at its 70%-owned Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc-manganese project, and says that all three will be online before the month’s end.
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