Minor Metals

Rare Earths Roundup – Dysprosium Oxide Price Up Third Straight Week

by MetalMiner IndX Reports on April 24, 2012

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The dysprosium oxide price rose 5.7 percent to finish as the week’s biggest mover on the rare earth metals market, having increased for the third straight week. The past week saw the praseodymium neodymium oxide price decline 3.3 percent. Most of the other rare earth metals tracked by the MetalMiner IndX held steady over the past week. [...]

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Born of Fire: Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaii

by Nate Burgos on April 20, 2012

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The “Big Island” of Hawaii was so named due to its life as a volcanic island—the largest and youngest of Hawaii’s eight islands (a ninth one in Lōʻihi escalates to the Pacific Ocean’s surface). Out of the Big Island’s five volcanoes, Kīlauea is the most active—continually erupting since 1983. While visiting the Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National [...]

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Rare Earths Roundup: Yttrium Closes Week With 89% Price Rise

by MetalMiner IndX Reports on April 17, 2012

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The week’s biggest mover in rare earth metals over the past week was yttrium, which saw an 89 percent price spike. Over the last seven days, samarium oxide shot up 20 percent. The price of lanthanum oxide gained 6.5 percent over the past week as well. This was the third week in a row of [...]

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The Consequences of Mining Rare Earths and Trading Gold Futures In China – Part One

by Taras Berezowsky on April 10, 2012

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The headline of this post attempts to wrap a few key goings-on in China, centered on rare earth metals mining and gold and futures trading, into one large picture. China’s rare earth metals industry will have a new oversight body of sorts, while a local court came up with a rather drastic punishment for a [...]

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Tin Supplies Constrained in the Face of Solid Demand

by Stuart Burns on March 26, 2012

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When we think of tin, we tend to think of tin cans — of course, comparatively only a tiny amount of tin goes into the packaging industry nowadays. The cost alone has driven the use of cheaper alternatives, reducing the percentage used down to 16-17 percent of total tin consumption. Tin still remains an important [...]

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Best of MetalMiner Q1 2012 – Rare Earth Metals and Minerals

by Taras Berezowsky on March 23, 2012

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These rare earths look more heavy than light…Source: treehugger.com Rare earth metals are once again the leading contenders for Sexiest Metals Category in the World Award, as news of the world’s heavies — the US, China, the EU and Japan — conducting a war of words through the WTO proliferated the mainstream. So how will [...]

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Rare Earth Metals, Coal, and Copper – Uncertainty Still Reigns

by Taras Berezowsky on March 16, 2012

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As we prepare to kick off our conference next Monday, we thought we should point at some happenings in commodity markets this week and what they might say about the broader outlook for prices heading into Q2 2012. China’s Rare Earths Are Not So Rare That was the headline of a Wall Street Journal opinion [...]

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China’s Rare Earths Export Restrictions in Obama’s Crosshairs – Part Two

by Taras Berezowsky on March 14, 2012

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Continued from Part One. Graeme Irvine, writing in Rare Metal Blog, ascribes an overarching political motive to the current moves: “The problem is that non-Chinese HREE supply doesn’t exist at present. With Lynas suffering delays in Malaysia, and Molycorp deficient in heavy rare earths, plus any World Trade Organisation complaint taking up to two years to reach [...]

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