Articles Tagged "Mineral Resources"

China: Magnesium, Manganese and Rare Earth’s

Newsletter writer Ken Reser discusses China's stranglehold over critical and strategic metals and minerals including Rare Earths.Newsletter writer Ken Reser discusses China's stranglehold over critical and strategic metals and minerals including Rare Earths. The editorial is quoted as saying: As many end user’s, investors and Base Metal industry participants are currently very aware, there is a storm boiling over China and their stranglehold over various mineral resources these days. One main case in point being the Rare Earth sector, front and centre. This isn’t much ado about nothing either. You don’t need a crystal ball to understand this worldwide rush for finite natural resources is only going to become drastically elevated and better reported as time moves on. To access the entire editorial, click here.

Ecometals Limited Announces Private Placement First Closing

Ecometals Limited (CVE:EC) announces that the company has closed the first tranche of a previously announced non-brokered private placement for up to 26,666,666 units at a price of CDN$0.15 per unit.

Consolidation in Australian Manganese Mining

Many mining companies in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have been consolidating manganese and iron ore operations. Pallinghurst Resources describes their strategy as a ‘steel feed corporation,’ producing all the products for steel milling operations. Also, Consolidated Minerals and OM Holdings are talking merger.