OIL, ELECTRICITY AND CO. The prices continue to fall
Dusseldorf. Use raw materials sparingly? In many companies there is still room for improvement. "Raw materials are currently not the most important issue for companies," says Lars-Peter Häfele from the Inverto purchasing consultancy. Accordingly, not all opportunities for savings would be taken. This is the result of Inverto's raw material survey in collaboration with Handelsblatt. 80 managing directors and [...]
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Rare earths: Russia wants to compete with China
October 17, 2014 Darja Kesina, RBTH Russia is entering the market for rare earth metals, which are coveted around the world. So far the Chinese have dominated there. A unique mining technology developed at the Ural Federal University could help change that. Scientists from the Ural Federal University have developed a sorbent that enables the extraction of rare earth metals [...]
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Rare earths: Why does China buy in bulk?
Author: Clemens Schmale China is the world's largest producer of rare earths and is now buying huge amounts of the metals from itself. What's behind it? The Chinese have a 90% share of the rare earths market. So they do not lack the metals that are absolutely necessary for production in the technology sector. Nevertheless […]
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What does the rare earth market need urgently? (Out of mind)
Guest author: Stephan Bogner [KommA] The former managing director of Neo Material Technologies Inc. said shortly before the takeover by the industry giant Molycorp that rare earths are not called rare because they are really rare, but because it is very difficult to find them Extracting items one at a time and that it takes a great deal of expertise to be successful. Published today [...]
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Rare earth: China must eliminate chaos in the industry
Illegal mining, black markets, smuggling - China's rare earth (SE) mining industry is sinking into chaos. According to a high official, this chaos caused prices to collapse and other massive problems. The government must intervene. Jia Yinsong, a senior official of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said at the Sixth Forum of the Chinese SE Industry (CREI) [...]
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Rare earth
Greenland Minerals and Energy's Kvanefjeld project in Greenland could one day meet 20 to 30% of the global demand for critical rare earth elements. Greenland is the largest island on earth, belongs geologically to Arctic North America and is politically an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark. In June 2009 an agreement on extended autonomy came into force. Thereafter [...]
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Germany gets license to search for raw materials in the sea
In future, Germany will be allowed to search for valuable raw materials in the Indian Ocean. The approval was approved on July 21 by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica, reports the "Spiegel" in advance from its new edition. The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) in Hanover wants to explore an area of 10.000 square kilometers southeast of Madagascar at a depth of 3000 meters. "There […]
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Rare earth producer Lynas suffers from falling prices
01.08.2014/4/18 (www.871899investors.de) - The shares of the rare earth producer Lynas (WKN XNUMX / ASX LYC) fell by almost XNUMX% today. Investors penalized the stock after the company reported lower prices for its products and as questions persist about its debt structure. Lynas has to [...]
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Öko-Institut calls for recycling system for rare earths
Whenever a hard drive or DVD player ends up in the garbage in Germany, rare earth metals are lost. This waste is unacceptable for the Öko-Institut. It calls for a recycling system for the expensive raw material. A small hard drive from Toshiba: Rare earths are often found in the high-performance magnets of the small motors. When scrapping, [...]
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Coveted raw materials discovered in the Alps
Rare earths are among the world's most sought-after raw materials. In the Valais Binntal, three hobby researchers have found a large number of minerals. The mineral collectors have known the Knight Pass in the Binntal for a long time. It is one of the most famous find areas in Switzerland. Now three amateur mineralogists have made a startling discovery. Ate van der Burgt, Mischa Crumbach and Stéphane Cuchet are in [...]
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