Australis’s Ionic Rare Earths’ goal of adding indication and measurement resources to its Makuutu project appears to be proceeding exactly as planned, and drilling is beginning to return to thick, high-grade mineralization.

Midwest Energy Emissions Corp. (ME2C Environmental) - A leading environmental technology company announced that the Pennsylvania State University's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has completed the first round of testing of its new rare earth technology.

Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. ("Happy Creek" or "Company") is pleased to report that a skid-mounted diamond drilling rig has been transferred to the Fox Tungsten project ("Fox Tungsten"). The Fox Tungsten is wholly owned by the company and is located in southern British Columbia.

With the increasing global demand for rare earths, Australia's Mount Ridley Mines Ltd gets excited after when it discovered a wide-ranging deposit in its namesake project. A recent reanalysis of 950 hollow samples revealed that the structure returned important rare earth elements values-including more than 1,000 ppm of total rare earth oxides (TREO).

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s domestic ammonium paratungstate (APT) and ferro tungsten prices remain weak adjustment in the middle of September. Although the market is supported by production costs, the demand side continues its weakness and deals are rarely concluded. 

China’s domestic rare earth price remained strong in the week ended on Friday, September 17, 2021 with the increase of downstream users' inquiries and purchases and the slight increase in the selling prices of mainstream products. However, due to the fact that there are still many uncertain factors in the market, the industry has divergent views on the market outlook.

China’s domestic molybdenum price maintained stability in the week ended on Friday, September 17, 2021. Under the weak balance of supply and demand, traders' entry operations are relatively stalemate, which makes it difficult for transaction volume and price to rise.

Researchers in the US Pentagon recently launched a project that aims to use microscopic bugs to extract rare earth minerals that are critical to military technology from domestic resources to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths. China is dominant on rare earth elements (REEs) that only the Baiyun Obo mine in the hinterland of the country supplies nearly half of the world's rare earth elements.

NioCorp Developments Ltd. announced that it will analyze historical drilling core samples from the Elk Creek project in southeastern Nebraska to compile sufficient data to release updated minerals for the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project, including the grade and tonnage of rare earth elements (REEs) that may be present in individual deposits.

Last month, the Japanese government proposed amendments to existing foreign exchange and foreign trade legislation, adding industries related to critical rare metals including lithium, cobalt, and rare earths to the list of key sectors to protect them from potentially problematic foreign investment and acquisitions.