The underwater drones used in the seabed mining industry help to discover rare metals such as rare earth and cobalt, both are critical to the technology supply chain of companies such as Apple and Tesla. Underwater drones can also be used to explore precious metals, and the value of the gold alone on the seafloor has been estimated to be worth $150 trillion.

Scheelite from the Tongshankou porphyry-skarn Cu-Mo(-W) deposit occurs mainly as disseminated grains in the altered granodiorite porphyries at depth (Sch A), in the skarn coeval with retrograde alteration (Sch B) and in distal quartz veins crosscutting marbles (Sch C). Assistant researcher Jinsheng Han and researcher Huayong Chen of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, took the Tongshankou porphyry-skarn Cu-Mo(-W) deposit system in southeastern Hubei as the research object and structured the scheelite based on detailed fieldwork and geochemistry (main trace elements and in-situ Sr isotopes).

For rare earth, zirconium, titanium's R&D technology, Korea's government has awarded US$4.5 million in grants to ASM's Korean R&D partner Zirconium Technology Corporation (ZironTech) for to use to progress its commitment to the Joint Venture with ASM.

A 2D molybdenum disulfide nanosheet - 1000 times smaller than a strand of hair is developed by the scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University for advancing the field of regenerative medicine and cancer treatment.

Recently, BioSolar, Inc. a US energy storage technology and materials developer, announced that it has filed a patent application for its "Silicon Alloy Anode for High Power Batteries", providing protection for the implementation of the Company’s silicon additive technology for high power batteries designed for application in targeted industries, such as power tools and hybrid electric vehicles.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The tungsten carbide powder and ferro tungsten prices in the Chinese market are under pressure because of low trading activity, cautious market sentiment and low consumption both at home and abroad. 

Rare earth market quotation in China: terbium oxide, neodymium oxide and praseodymium neodymium oxide prices continue to edge higher in the week ended on Friday June 12, 2020 due to improved trading activity and optimistic sentiment of market participants. 

Molybdenum market quotation in China: the latest prices of molybdenum oxide, molybdenum concentrate and ferro molybdenum maintain stability in the week ended on Friday June 12, 2020 on balanced supply and demand in the market.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ferro tungsten and tungsten powder prices in China tungsten market remain weak adjustment owing to a lack of spot demand in overseas markets, as downstream consumer sectors were temporarily shut down amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Rare earth market quotation in China: the latest prices of europium oxide, neodymium oxide and praseodymium and neodymium oxide continue to rise on June 11, 2020.