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New rare earth age for old NY iron mines
Industrial Age iron mines in the eastern Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York may find new life as domestic sources of the rare earth elements needed in today's Information Age. Mined heavily... — Updated 12/29/2020 Full story
Ucore unveils Alaska2023 rare earths plan
Seeking to alleviate the United States' heavy reliance on China for its supply of the rare earth elements needed for a broad range of high-tech applications, Ucore Rare Metals Inc. has rolled out... — Updated 10/20/2020 Full story
Rise of a world class rare earths project
Appia Energy Corp.'s Alces Lake project in Saskatchewan hosts some of the highest rare earth element grades ever discovered and the Toronto-based exploration company is now investigating just how... — Updated 10/14/2020 Full story
Texas congressmen craft rare earths bill
A pair of Texas congressmen, Republican Lance Gooden and Democrat Vicente Gonzalez, have introduced the Reclaiming American Rare Earths Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing America's... — Updated 9/15/2020 Full story
EVs drive explosive REE magnet demand
Rare earths and battery metals market expert Adamas Intelligence forecasts that demand for the magnet rare earths – neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium – will falter slightly this year... — Updated 9/2/2020 Full story
Magnets are rare earth feed for Geomega
It is estimated that upwards of US$13.8 billion of rare earth magnets are imported into the United States each year, which is creating a stockpile of some of the most widely used rare earth... — Updated 8/26/2020 Full story
Geomega, USA Rare Earth recycling pact
Already involved in nearly every facet of the rare earth supply chain, from mining these technology elements to manufacturing powerful REE magnets, USA Rare Earth LLC has cut a deal with Geomega... — Updated 7/22/2020 Full story
Accelerating the USA Rare Earth strategy
Texas Mineral Resources Corp. has added fuel to USA Rare Earth LLC's strategy to establish a complete rare earth mines-to-magnets supply chain in the United States, which is already advancing... — Updated 7/7/2020 Full story
USA rare earth separation pilot underway
With the commissioning of a pilot plant in Colorado now underway, USA Rare Earth LLC is one step closer to producing rare earth elements on American soil. Based in New York City, USA Rare Earth... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
Texas REE separation plant makes progress
Texas Mineral Resources Corp. and USA Rare Earth LLC April 2 said the COVID-19 outbreak thus far has not held up progress on their Round Top critical minerals project in Texas and pilot heavy... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
USA Rare Earth adds magnet equipment
USA Rare Earth LLC has acquired state-of-the-art neodymium-iron-boron permanent magnet manufacturing equipment, another key piece to the company's strategy to establish a complete rare earths mine... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
COVID-19 underscores rare earth exposure
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. says the COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the need for a domestic supply of rare earth elements and other critical minerals and the company continues to make headway... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
Coronavirus slows China rare earth sector
Many in the United States, from President Donald Trump to sector analysts, have been raising the alarms about America's heavy dependence on China for rare earth elements and other critical... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
Alaska REE project draws Pentagon interest
Ucore Rare Metals Inc. wants to provide the Pentagon with an American source of rare earth elements, vital ingredients to a wide array of U.S. military hardware, from helmet mounted radios to... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
The enigmatic rare earth elements paradox
American mines produced roughly 26,000 tons of rare earth during 2019, a 44 percent increase over 2018, yet the United States is 100 percent reliant on foreign countries for its supply of these... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
Canada boasts substantial REE resources
Rare earth elements in Canada have recaptured the spotlight now that the United States has entered a new alliance with its northern neighbor to develop robust supply chains for critical minerals... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
A tale of two rare earth countries
Unique, remarkable, magical and irreplaceable are some of the adjectives uses to describe rare earths – a group of 17 elements with names most of us have never heard of but have seemingly... — Updated 6/27/2020 Full story
NWT First Nation to mine first Canada REE
Det'on Cho Nahanni Construction Corp., owned by the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, has signed a landmark agreement to run the mining operations at Nechalacho, on pace to be the first rare earth... — Updated 2/4/2020 Full story