source:BloombergTanzania is in the final stages of approving a permit for the country’s first rare earths mine to Australian company Peak Resources Ltd. as the government seeks a bigger share of revenue from natural resources.The state is also finalizing a gold-mining license for another Australian company, OreCorp Ltd. at the Nyanzaga project in the northwest of the country, according to Mining Minister Doto Biteko.The East African nation is Africa’s fourth-biggest producer of the precious metal and plans to increase mineral earnings by at least a third during the next three years. It also ha...
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source:SciTechDailyNew lightweight magnets have possible real-world applications.An international team of researchers led by the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (UMR 5031, CNRS -University of Bordeaux) has discovered a novel way to design magnets with outstanding physical properties, which could make them complementary to, or even competitive with traditional inorganic magnets, which are widely used in everyday appliances.Magnets are an integral part of our everyday lives and are found in many medical and electronic devices, including household appliances, electric motors, and computers. The d...
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IDTechEx: despite efforts to reduces rare-earth use, percentage of permanent magnet-based EV motors rising source:Green Car CongressWhile there has been much publicity and technical development towards rare-earth reduction in vehicle motors, in practice the market is seeing an increase in the number of permanent magnet motors. The new IDTechEx report “Materials for Electric Vehicles 2020-2030” finds that in recent years, there has been an increased shift towards more permanent magnet-based motors: 2019 saw this increase to 82% compared to 79% in 2015.Permanent magnet motors typically have...
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source:MINING.comAfrica-focused Rainbow Rare Earths (LON:RBW) has inked an agreement with Bosveld Phosphates to co-develop the Phalaborwa rare earths project in South Africa.The asset contains about 35 million tonnes of gypsum resulting from historic phosphate hard rock mining, containing rare earth elements (REEs) with an estimated average in situ grade of 0.6% total rare earth oxides (TREOs), the companies said.SIGN UP FOR THE AFRICA, EUROPE & MIDDLE EAST DIGESTAs part of the agreement, Rainbow will pay Bosveld $750,000 in cash and share in three equal tranches over twelve months. O...
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