Minor Metals

Liquid Metal Battery: “Saving Electricity for Our Future”

by Nate Burgos on March 9, 2012

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Professor Donald Sadoway speaking at TED2012. Photograph by James Duncan Davidson Donald Sadoway, materials chemistry professor at MIT, believes that “we need a better battery if we’re going to improve our ability to make use of electric power.” He explained his rationale, using a chalkboard, to an audience at the annual TED (Technology, Entertainment and [...]

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Rare Earth Oxide Prices Continue Slide, But For How Much Longer? – Part Two

by Stuart Burns on March 1, 2012

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Continued from Part One. But the fall-off in rare earth metals demand is not as marked as the drop in apparent demand suggests. A significant portion of last year’s buying can be attributed to consumers seeking to build inventories and/or sign up supply agreements as prices rose. With supplies secured and inventories full, buyers can [...]

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China’s Rare Earths Production Skirts WTO – Lynas Corp. to Fill the Gap?

by Taras Berezowsky on February 2, 2012

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Source: NY Times As an update to our previous post about the WTO ruling on China’s export restrictions, we thought we’d point to a follow-up from Reuters on the ruling’s implications for rare earth metal quotas. In short, there’s a loophole. Reuters notes that “Monday’s ruling left open a loophole for export quotas if they [...]

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WTO Rules Against China’s Raw Materials Exports – How Big a Win for Domestic Steel?

by Taras Berezowsky on February 1, 2012

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We all know a thing or two about news that’s not really news (or, to put it more accurately, news that’s overblown) — and this phenomenon seems to happen in the realm of rare earth metals more than anywhere else. Reporting on rare earth metals is such a hot commodity in and of itself that [...]

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Toyota Latest Manufacturer to Identify Rare Earth Metal Product Substitutes

by Lisa Reisman on January 30, 2012

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Every six months or so, I am reminded of this phrase which I love, “nothing kills high prices like high prices.” And so it goes that engineers and sourcing organizations everywhere begin to contemplate and, in some cases, develop alternative materials. We have seen examples of this in stainless steels, whereby many organizations made the [...]

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Element Electronics and US TV Manufacturing: The Current Posterchildren for Reshoring

by Taras Berezowsky on January 26, 2012

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Reshoring should be nothing new to MetalMiner readers, as we’ve covered closely as it relates to US manufacturing. (Feel free to get a refresher on the pros and cons by clicking on the previous links.) For some, it may make more business sense to reshore labor-intensive castings, stampings, or other industrial metal parts or machinery, [...]

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How Rare Earths Export Quotas Will Affect Prices in 2012 – Part Three

by Lisa Reisman on January 11, 2012

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Guest contributor Rahul Jalan is a Chennai-based advisor in Rare Earths for Beroe Consulting India Pvt Ltd. Jalan tracks the global rare earth supply chain and analyzes global procurement developments to help develop state-of-the-art procurement solutions for the company. Beroe specializes in providing procurement intelligence and advisories for a broad swath of industries. Continued from [...]

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China’s Rare Earths Export Quotas for 2012: Rules and Regulations – Part Two

by Lisa Reisman on January 10, 2012

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Guest contributor Rahul Jalan is a Chennai-based advisor in Rare Earths for Beroe Consulting India Pvt Ltd. Jalan tracks the global rare earth supply chain and analyzes global procurement developments to help develop state-of-the-art procurement solutions for the company. Beroe specializes in providing procurement intelligence and advisories for a broad swath of industries. Continued from [...]

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