Rare earth market quotation in China: terbium oxide and praseodymium oxide prices continue to increase while lanthanum oxide price keeps stable on December 2, 2020. After a previous sharp increase, now rare earth prices tend to slow down. 

Molybdenum market quotation in China; ferro molybdenum, molybdenum powder and molybdenum bar prices decline slightly on December 2, 2020 under many instabilities in the market. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ferro tungsten and ammonium metatungstate (APT) prices in China continue to maintain stability in the last trading day in November as a stalemate is setting in between buyers and sellers, and only changes in demand patterns are likely to break the deadlock.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s tungsten concentrate price continued to strengthen in the week ended on Friday November 27, 2020 amid tight supply from mining companies. The price increases for the raw material have also triggered higher offers for ammonium paratungstate (APT) but downstream tungsten powder and alloy consumers are resisting them amid weak economic conditions, resulting in a stalemate.

Rare earth market quotation in China: praseodymium oxide, neodymium oxide and dysprosium oxide prices continue to rise in the last trading day on November 30, 2020 due to tight supply of raw materials. 

Molybdenum market quotation in China: ferro molybdenum, molybdenum powder and molybdenum concentrate prices keep stable in the last trading day in November, 2020 amid mixed signals. 

Under the guidance of Trump’s order to expand US rare earth production and support the domestic supply chain, the Pentagon announced that it will allocate approximately $13 million (about NT$370 million) to three rare earth mining companies to help them rebuild the U.S. rare earth production chain for getting rid of dependence on rare earths in mainland China.

Baotou to promote the upgrading of the rare earth industry. The city is the largest industrial city in Inner Mongolia. It is an important energy, raw material, rare earth and equipment manufacturing base for the country and Inner Mongolia. It is known as "Prairie Steel City" and "Rare Earth Capital". With the development of the economy, as an old industrial city, is also facing the urgent task of technological progress and industrial upgrading.

Recently, the EPFL research team used molybdenum disulfide to develop a new type of "brain-like neuron transmission" computer chip, which has the ability to process and store information in the same circuit, and realize a small size for computer equipment. It provides insight for optimization, high efficiency and energy saving.

1T phase MoS₂ (1T-MoS₂) could remove toxic metals in aquatic systems according to recent research. The research team of the Environmental and Energy Nanomaterials Center of the Nanomaterials and Device Technology Research Department of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hefei Research Institute used a two-step solvothermal synthesis method to prepare a high-purity 1T- MoS₂, which is chemically stable high, and it can be placed in the air for a year, and maintain a stable wide-spaced structure in the water environment, thereby ensuring the transport of ions, and efficiently removing toxic metals ions in the water, such as hexavalent chromium.