source:BrusselstimesBelgium is a European leader in recycling, one of the few nations to meet recycling targets set out by the EU. Other than household and commercial waste, Belgian recycling plants are now helping to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign minerals.Rare earth metals, commonly used in the production of high-tech goods, are desperately needed for the European economy. China has a monopoly on the supply of these metals, producing up to 97% of the world's supply.In July, China placed export restrictions on gallium and germanium metals, which are indispensable for the production...
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source:miningweeklyInitial mine development work on the Brook rare earths mine, in Wyoming, will start in the fourth quarter, Nasdaq-listed coal miner Ramaco Resources announced on Monday.This will be the first new rare earths mine in the US since the Mountain Pass mine in California in 1952. Currently, Mountain Pass is the US’s only operating mine for these critical elements and minerals.Besides large percentages of magnetic rare-earth oxides (REOs), there is also a possibility that the Brook deposit may contain meaningful amounts of gallium and germanium – two critical minerals that are wide...
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source:SMALL CAPSWest Cobar Metals (ASX: WC1) has announced a nearly fourfold increase in the resource base of the Salazar clay-hosted rare earth element (REE) project near Esperance in Western Australia.The new figures are based on a Phase 1 aircore program of 283 holes for a total 9,340 metres designed to extend and infill existing inferred resources and add inferred tonnages at the Newmont and O’Connor deposits.The combined resource now totals 190 million tonnes of 1,172 parts per million TREO (total rare earth oxide) in the indicated and inferred categories.Newmont’s resource has increased...
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Nimy Resources (ASX: NIM) has hit rare earths and base metals in a newly-identified 4.5km corridor at its Mons project in Western Australia.Nimy says the results are important because they sit well away from previously-announced nickel and lithium targets, highlighting the immense prospectivity of the greenstone belt at Mons.The results follow new assays released by Nimy which identified up to 0.73% nickel.The company stated that those results pointed to a high-grade feeder source and it would start down-hole EM to find the nickel sulphide traps.Wide rare-earth corridor“We have identified a 4....
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