Molybdenum market quotation in China: ferro molybdenum price edges higher while prices of molybdenum oxide and sodium molybdate remains unchanged in the first trading day on December, 2021. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

At the beginning of the week, China’s domestic tungsten price maintains stability due to unclear demand side but supported by the high cost. Manufacturers would like to stabilize their offers and buyers remain rigid demand. 

Namibia Critical Metals has completed work on the starter pit for the Lofdal Dysprosium-Terbium Project bulk sampling originally reported on 20 September 2021. blasting was conducted at the Zone 4 deposit on 6 October and mining of the designated zones was completed on 30 October.

Viliam Vaňo and his colleagues have developed a novel artificial material that could mimic quantum entangled rare earth compounds, the compounds with quantum properties normally required for rare-earth compounds that could improve quantum computers and advance research into superconductivity and quantum criticality.

ASX-listed exploration company Rafaella Resources has entered into an agreement with PanEx Resources to acquire the Borralha and Vila Verde tungsten projects in Portugal. Rafaella will acquire from PanEx Resources the rights to Pan Iberia, where PanEx Resources, through its subsidiary PanMetals Unipessoal, has 100% of the rights to acquire the Borralha project and 90% of the Vila Verde project.

A recent airborne magnetic survey by Dreadnought Resources at the Mangaroon Project in the Gascoyne area of Western Australia identified five potential rare earth element (REE)-bearing carbonate intrusions. The survey identified multiple ovoid magnetic anomalies that are located south of the crustal-scale Lyon River Fault and have a similar appearance to the textbook examples of an igneous carbonate intrusion.

Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) says it has discovered the highest-grade rare earth element, neodymium, in its Deep Leads discovery. It told the Australian Securities Exchange it was awaiting the results of 20 recent drill holes that could "materially expand" the known extent of the mineralization.

Vancouver-based mining company Starcore International Mines has expanded its exploration for molybdenum and other precious metals in Mexico. The company's holdings include a producing mine and exploration and development projects in Mexico.

Ferro-Alloy Resources, a developer of the large Balasausqandiq vanadium mine in southern Kazakhstan, recently announced that it has achieved its first commercial sale of ferro-molybdenum and has completed production testing of ferro-vanadium.

Aldoro Resources reports that sampling at its Wyemandoo project in Western Australia has shown highly anomalous levels of rubidium (Rb). Rb is used in a range of industrial applications, including fiber optic cables, GPS systems, and specialty glass in night vision equipment, and potentially in the future for sodium-ion batteries.