source：Laramie BoomerangWyoming’s current coal market decline coincides with a sudden national awareness of the serious shortage of certain critical materials, including several with deposits located in the state.With residents and lawmakers scrambling for new economic avenues, could Wyoming be the nation’s new go-to source for rare earth elements that now come mainly from China?Last week, U.S. Sens. Mike Enzi and John Barasso sent letters to the Secretaries of Defense and Interior urging the Department of the Interior “to support the full range of domestic rare earths supply chain development...
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source：ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - China’s rare earth exports fell 22.2% month-on-month in April, customs data showed on Thursday, easing from a spike in March that saw ports clear shipments held up by coronavirus-related curbs on transport and as the pandemic hits overseas demand.Shipments totalled 4,316.7 tonnes last month, the General Administration of Customs said, down from 5,551.4 tonnes in March, which was the highest monthly figure in records going back to June 2014, and down 0.3% from a year earlier.In the first four months of 2020, China exported 15,357.3 tonnes of rare earths, down 1...
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source：Mining ReviewThe 7 456 km2 Coola project lies 16 km from Longonjo and contains two known carbonatites with reported NdPr rare earth mineralisation.The project further hosts five additional alkaline intrusive complexes and five strong geophysical anomalies which collectively represent an immediate and wide range of very well defined ‘walk – up’ exploration targets prospective for NdPr and other rare earths.The two carbonatite complexes, Coola and Monte Verde, are confirmed as mineralised through academic work identifying NdPr rare earth mineralisation in rock samples.The Coola and Monte ...
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source:Proactive Investors UKCompletion of a feasibility study for the firm's Malawi rare earth mine is presently targeted in the second half of next year.Mkango Resources Ltd’s (LON:MKO) full-year results have confirmed it had a US$9.53mln cash position at the end of 2019, whilst the company also noted that work on the Songwe rare earth project’s feasibility study is continuing.Workstreams for the study are ongoing though the company noted that because of the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic it is inevitable that some elements will be impacted and the precise extent of the d...
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