Rare Earth News - July 2019
12.07.2019/20/XNUMX - Rare earth prices have fallen slightly this week, especially praseodymium, neodymium, dysprosium and terbium. Affected by the GXNUMX meeting on trade and critical metals / rare earth elements and sporadic discussions, the dealers of praseodymium and neodymium began to supply at lower prices. While the prices for dysprosium products due to the [...]
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Location Norway: New business opportunities for German companies
Innovation Norway and the German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce cordially invite you to an information event about business opportunities in Norway: Date & place: June 14, 2016 in Munich, Haus der Bayerischen Wirtschaft During the event, you will meet national experts who will provide information about Norway as a business location particularly address the attractive energy situation. Representatives from leading industries and clusters will [...]
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Successful Chile trip for mining companies
A forum with around 200 participants in Santiago was the highlight of a business trip for German companies that led to Chile from June 29th to July 3rd. The topic of the forum was process optimization in mining: machines, conveyor technology and automation. The German participants had the opportunity to exchange ideas with representatives of Chilean and international mining and [...]
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New project is looking for investor / s
The German Institute for Rare Earths and Metals is a household name worldwide when it comes to prices for rare earths, secondary metals and isotopes. Metal traders have asked several times whether there is no weekly updated price index for these 120 metals in Russian, Spanish, French and German. The Institute for Rare Earths and Metals [...]
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Coveted metals from old lamps
Bernd Schlupeck scientists in Saxony have developed a chemical process to obtain rare earths inexpensively from fluorescent sludge from lamp production and fluorescent powder from old tubes. Rare earths are not necessarily rare, but often expensive raw materials that are used in almost all high-tech products. "So, this is now the stirred tank where the phosphors are processed." Peter Fröhlich, [...]
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Tariffs on rare earths are abolished
Rare earth export taxes will be abolished on May 1, the Chinese Ministry of Finance announced in a statement on Thursday. A move that analysts say will stimulate China's exports of the rare resource. On rare earths (SE) - a group of minerals vital to the technology and defense industries - as well as tungsten, [...]
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Dealers have to take back old electrical appliances in the future
A new draft law by Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks (SPD) wants to oblige businesses in the future to take back old electrical devices when buying a new device of equal value. With the reform of the electrical law, the federal government is planning to recycle more valuable metals from old devices such as cell phones, toasters and modems. The new take-back obligation is intended for shops with more than 400 square meters of sales area and [...]
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Freiberg mining rare earths from waste of phosphorus
by Heiko Weckbrodt on December 4, 2014 The process is now being used in the Narva lamp company Freiberg, December 4, 2014: Every day in Germany, strategically important raw materials such as "rare earths" worth several thousand euros are buried in underground landfills as hazardous waste. Chemists at the Bergakademie Freiberg have now developed a technology together with industrial partners in order to [...]
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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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