Price recovery for strategic raw materials
February 17.02th, 10:26 am Hasso Bergmann After Beijing had already tilted its export quotas at the beginning of the year, the export tax is also set to fall as part of the WTO ruling at the beginning of May. This ranges between 15 and 25% depending on the metal. Such a measure could well put the prices under pressure, writes the Frankfurter Tradium GmbH in its latest market report. However, [...]
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High-tech metals cheaper - steel prices remain suspended in 2015
While the manufacturers of many high-tech products can count on cheaper raw materials in the New Year, the prices for car sheet metal or building materials made of steel remain difficult to predict. On the one hand, producers - and in the end possibly also consumers - should benefit from the significant drop in prices for some rare earths, according to experts. These are electronic raw materials that are used in LCD screens, cell phones, batteries, energy-saving lamps [...]
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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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Improve the recycling of rare earths in electric motors
09.07.2014/09/17, XNUMX:XNUMX AM | Science | Author: idw | For the recycling of rare earths from permanent magnets in modern and highly efficient electric motors, sustainable recycling concepts must be developed in the coming years. The motors of industrial applications are not yet collected and disposed of separately at the end of their life; the potential for the recovery of the rare earths is thus not increased. This results in [...]
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Rare earth clean and cheap?
08.07.2014/2/XNUMX - Kevin Bullis The start-up Infinium wants to make COXNUMX-intensive processes in metal production more environmentally friendly. In a laboratory building across from a yoga studio in an office park in Natick, near Boston, Adam Powell holds up a shiny white ceramic tube. This is the key to manufacturing much-used metals much cheaper and, above all, more ecologically, he says. Powell [...]
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"Investing in severity Rare earths remain attractive" (H.Weimer, Emuro GmbH)
New refrigerator technology, Tesla, e-mobility and alternative energies need heavy rare earths Interview with Helmut Weimer, Emuro GmbHBE: Mr. Weimer, how has the situation with rare earths developed in the last 12 months? Has the market found its bottom? Weimer: Due to the global economic downturn, we felt a decline in demand. The resulting price consolidation and the [...]
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Material efficiency instead of energy efficiency in the car of the future - a paradigm of electromobility
30.04.2014/11/46 XNUMX:XNUMX am Heidi Müller-Henicz, a graduate social scientist, press and public relations work at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg Cobalt and gallium or neodymium and dysprosium, among other things these precious, sometimes very rare elements can be found in our cars - already today and especially in the electric cars of the future. But where, in which components, material composites and quantities? How can they be identified and at the end [...]
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Tasman begins pre-feasibility study for rare earth project Norra Karr in Sweden
Press release April 8, 2014 Vancouver, Canada - Tasman Metals Ltd. ("Tasman" or the "Company") (TSXV: TSM; Frankfurt: T61); (NYSE-MKT: TAS). President and CEO Mark Saxon Announces the Start of a Pre-Feasibility Study ("PFS") for the Norra Karr Heavy Rare Earth ("REE") project in Sweden. After careful review, Tasman's management has selected a highly qualified team of engineers with experience in the REE sector in Europe. [...]
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First private storage program for rare earths was launched
Press release of the German Institute for Rare Earths and Strategic Metals from November 26.11.2013th, 26.11.2013 November XNUMXth, XNUMX Düsseldorf - The British company First European Minerals, headquartered in London, has launched a storage program for rare earths and strategic metals in cooperation with German companies. Both private and institutional interested parties have the opportunity to use these rare elements [...]
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Market Overview August 2013 Rare earths
It appears that the fight against illegal mining and smuggling of material will continue, as you can see from the price table at the end of this report. The other reason is that industry is consolidating within China, preventing more precise control of production. The consolidation, with the exception of Ce and La, can [...]
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