Positive REE recoveries for Ucore
Metallurgical tests on Ucore Rare Metals’ (UCU-V) Bokan Mountain project in southeastern Alaska has shown encouraging recoveries for both light and heavy rare earth elements (REEs).
Industrial/Specialty Minerals
Greenlight advancing East Coast lithium project
Eastern Canada-focused Greenlight Resources (GR-V) is testing a new lithium extraction process that could be used at its Brazil Lake project in southwestern Nova Scotia, while it continues to expand its overall property holdings.
Pacific North shares stay flat on assays, financing news
Pacific North West Capital (PFN-T) posted more assays from its ongoing $5-million drill program at its River Valley platinum-group metals (PGM) project in Sudbury, Ont.
A strong quarter for Talison
Talison Lithium (tlh-t) got a healthy boost from higher sales and production for the period ended Sept. 30. It shares jumped 26.5% to $3.77 on the news.
Eight new mines to open in BC by 2015, but which ones are they?
B.C.’s new premier, Christy Clark, has unveiled a new jobs plan for the province that is long on rhetoric and short on details.
BC regulator flags Passport Potash
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has gently reproached Passport Potash (PPI-V) for making several iffy disclosures while touting its early stage Holbrook potash project in Arizona.
Molycorp discovers a new REE deposit
Molycorp (mcp-n) has found a once forgotten heavy rare-earth element (HREE) deposit near its Mountain Pass mine in California.
Greenlight advancing east-coast lithium project
Vancouver – Eastern Canada-focused Greenlight Resources (GR-V) is testing a new lithium extraction process that could be used at its Brazil Lake project, while it continues to expand its overall property holdings.
Ucore reports positive recoveries from Bokan Mtn REE project
Vancouver – Metallurgical testing on Ucore Rare Metals’ (UCU-V) Bokan Mountain project in southeastern Alaska has shown encouraging recoveries for both light and heavy rare earth elements.
Outlook brightens for American Vanadium’s Gibellini
American Vanadium (AVC-V) has significantly improved the economics of its Gibellini vanadium project in Nevada, thanks in small part to an improved outlook for vanadium oxide prices.
Wealth Minerals focuses on rare earths
With the Chinese recently choking the supply of rare earths, there’s a race to get new cheap production from outside of China. Specialty minerals explorer Wealth Minerals (wml-v) is part of that hustle, touting its Rodeo de los Molles deposit…
GeoMega’s Montviel is no longer a secret
“The secret will be out with the initial resource estimate,” said GeoMega’s (GMA-V) president Simon Britt, referring to the potential at the company’s Montviel carbonatite rare earth elements (REE) property in Abitibi, Que.