By: Simone Liedtke 3rd May 2018 Work has started on the initial phases of a feasibility study into Mkango Resources» Songwe Hill
rare earths project, in Malawi.
Northern Minerals» heavy
rare earths project at Browns Range in the East Kimberley appears to be timed to perfection following last week's shock announcement of production cut backs by China.
A decrease in Chinese production of dysprosium highlighted by research commissioned by Northern Minerals, has placed an increasing focus on the company's Browns Range
rare earths project.
Western Australian Environment Minister Albert Jacob has granted Northern Minerals approval of its proposed Browns Range
rare earths project near Halls Creek.
Northern Minerals has attracted a Chinese - based funding partner to provide up to $ 49.5 million for its flagship Browns Range heavy
rare earths project near Halls Creek.
Northern Minerals has appointed Dublin - headquartered management consulting firm Accenture to plan and budget a feasibility study at its flagship Browns Range
rare earths project near Halls Creek.
Peak Resources has appointed engineering firm Amec Foster Wheeler for its Ngualla
rare earth project in Tanzania after locking in a $ 5 million interim loan.
Northern Minerals is cutting salaries and reducing its head count to reduce costs as it seeks to complete the next stage of funding for its Browns Range
rare earth project near Halls Creek.
«Sometime in 2011 to 2012, Chinese domestic demand will surpass Chinese domestic production,» says Jack Lifton, an analyst and consultant who specializes in what he calls the «technology metals» and advises mining industry clients developing
rare earth projects in North America.
Not exact matches
ASPIRING
rare earths miner Arafura Resources is on a renewed push to progress its Nolans
project in the Northern Territory and has set a date for mid-next year to decide whether to continue or walk aw
As for that leverage: you can rest assured that DARPA (Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency) has long been funding research efforts to replace the
rare -
earth metals with other materials.
ASPIRING
rare earths miner Arafura Resources is on a renewed push to progress its Nolans
project in the Northern Territory and has set a date for mid-next year to decide whether to continue or walk away.
Rare earths hopeful Northern Minerals has attracted another Chinese investment group for a $ 30 million equity injection into its Browns Range
project.
Local explorer Northern Minerals plans to build a test pilot plant at its Browns Range
project near Halls Creek at a cost of about $ US18 million ($ A25 million), rather than proceeding with full - scale development in light of the depressed
rare earths market.
Perth - based
rare earths explorer Greenland Minerals and Energy will undertake a $ 6.1 million non-renounceable rights issue to fund ongoing work at its Kvanefield
project.
Rare earths company Arafura Resources says it will incur a $ 27.7 million non-cash impairment charge against its Nolans
project in the Northern Territory.
Shares in local
rare earths explorer Plymouth Minerals closed 75 per cent higher on news it had entered into an agreement to acquire two African potash
projects for an all - scrip deal worth up to $ 2.75 million.
The 100 % Northern Minerals owned
project will operate as a large - scale pilot plant for three years, with the goal of expanding into one of the world's only significant suppliers for critical heavy
rare earths outside of China.
Arafura Resources Ltd has been awarded a $ 3.3 million federal government grant for its NT
rare earths - uranium
project while biotechnology company Imugene Ltd has secured an $ 880,000 grant to produce and test bird flu vaccines on chickens.
Lynas director Ziggy Switkowski has defended the company's
project management skills in the wake of delays to its
rare earths processing facility in Malaysia.
Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60
projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO),
Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).
The REACT
projects identify low - cost and abundant replacement materials for
rare earths while encouraging existing technologies to use them more efficiently.
«Instead of trying to regain each individual type of
rare earth, we focus on recycling the entire material, meaning the complete magnet — and this in only a few steps,» Oliver Diehl, scientist in the
Project Group IWKS explains.
The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA - E REACT program (Advanced Research
Projects Agency - Energy —
Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies) which develops cost - effective alternatives to rare earths, the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generat
Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies) which develops cost - effective alternatives to
rare earths, the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generat
rare earths, the naturally occurring minerals with unique magnetic properties that are used in electric vehicle (EV) motors, and wind generators.
Dublin Institute of Technology, Electrical and Controls Engineering and Gaskatel, Kassel, Germany - Fuel Cells University of Applied Science - Germany, Fuel Cells and Nanocomposit Materials Trinity College - Dublin Physics - Nanotubes and Polymer Modified Carbon Nanotubes materials and Spectroscopic Characterization of Liganded
Rare Earth Compounds (Chemistry) Our work has resulted inthe start up of two companies: Photonic Cleaning Technologies, LLC, Platteville, WI, USA - Manufacturer of First Contact Polymer, Sales in 62 Countries Xolve, Inc., Platteville, WI, USA Hamilton Group Past and Present Research and Development
Projects: Design, Characterization and Synthesis of Chromone Laser Dyes Surface And Optical Characterization of Polymer Strip Coatings for Optics and Astronomy Double Resonance IR / VIS Fluorescence Detection using the National Free Electron Laser Facility in Newport News, Virginia
The program will assist and inform other ongoing materials research
projects at Ames Laboratory, including ones with experimentalists on the hunt for new magnetic and high - entropy alloys, thermoelectrics,
rare -
earth magnets, and iron - arsenide superconductors.
Its gold
projects include Essakane, Rosebel, Westwood, Mouska, Côté as well
Rare Earth Elements
projects all in Canada; Boto
project in Senegel and Pitangui Project in
project in Senegel and Pitangui
Project in
Project in Brazil.
There are three types of resources in Act of Aggression: Oil, which is used for basic units and structures; Aluminum, which is used for more tech - focused
projects; and
Rare Earth Metal, which is used late - game on things like powerful units or superweapons.
Recent
projects include Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition (a unique site - specific exhibition on the remote Pacific island of Isla del Coco) and
Rare Earth (a major group exhibition at Thyssen - Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna).
In The Pit Of Despair, De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2017); That Continuos Thing, Artists and the Ceramics Studio, 1920 — Today, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives (2016); LOOKING AT PEOPLE LOOKING AT ART, curated by mark Essen, The Division of Labour, London (2015); The March
Project, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2016); The Cerebus Syndrome, The Laughing bell, London (2015); Potteries Thinkbelt, Rob Tufnell (2015); The
Rare Earth Medicine Show, Troy Town Art Pottery, London (2014); Slade Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London (2014); Workhouse, The Elephants Head, London (2013).
Presenting itself under the label of the
Rare Earth Element Praseodymium, the object harvests these energies, which it transmits as a signal radiating from inside Cell
Project Space.
Cell
Project Space presents Praseodymium Intracrine Signal Aggregate, the ninth instalment of Iain Ball's
Rare Earth Sculpture series.
For instance, just the
rare earths of a typical 100 MW wind
project would generate approximately: