Industrial/Specialty Minerals

Thompson Creek raises $270M with gold stream sale

  Vancouver -Thompson Creek Metals (TCM-T, TC-N) has pre-sold another chunk of future gold production from its Mt. Milligan project to Royal Gold (RGL-T, RGLD-Q) in the face of a softened molybdenum market and two projects under…


Western Lithium completes prefeasibility on Kings Valley

Jay Chmelauskas bought his 100%-electric Nissan Leaf about a month ago and charges its battery at one of two charging stations across the street from the Pan Pacific Hotel in downtown Vancouver. The car gets him around town and his family…


Matamec signs MOU with Toyota Tsusho

Shares of Matamec Explorations (MAT-V) have taken off after the junior announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the trading arm of Toyota Motor Group to fast-track the development of its Kipawa rare earths deposit in…



K+S to make history with Legacy potash

K+S plans to go ahead with building its Legacy  potash project in Saskatchewan’s highly prospective potash basin, with initial production expected in 2015.


Facilities at Molycorp's Mountain Pass rare earth element mine in southeastern California. Photo by Trish Saywell

Molycorp delivers on magnet-making deal

In August Molycorp’s (MCP-N) proposed partnership with Hitachi Metals to create a joint venture that would manufacture neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloy and permanent rare earth magnets fell through when the two companies failed to reach an…


Allana Potash sketches US$796M capex for Dallol

Allana Potash (AAA-T, AAA-V) is painting a rosy picture of its Dallol potash project in Ethiopia, with a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) that estimates start-up costs at US$796 million. 


Orocobre – Argentina’s next low-cost lithium producer?

Brisbane-based Orocobre (ORL-T, ORE-A) is looking to become a significant new lithium producer with its advanced-stage Salar de Olaroz lithium-potash brine project in northwestern Argentina. The company already has a definitive feasibility…


Legacy looks to make history

K+S plans to go ahead with building its Legacy project in Saskatchewan’s highly prospective potash basin, with initial production expected in 2015.   



Molycorp delivers on magnet-making jv

In August Molycorp’s (MCP-N) proposed partnership with Hitachi Metals to create a joint-venture that would manufacture neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) alloy and permanent  rare earth magnets fell through when the two companies failed to reach…


Mark Smith, Molycorp's president and CEO. For more than 24 years, Smith has been involved in the operation and development of the Mountain Pass rare earth element mine in southeastern California, seen in the background. Photo by Trish Saywell

Molycorp’s Mountain Pass: A made-in-America solution

In late October Molycorp (MCP-N) bused journalists from Fortune, Wired, Mother Jones and The Northern Miner, among others, down Interstate Highway 15 from Las Vegas to meet president and chief executive Mark Smith and tour the company’s…


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