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12 Mar 2010 Uranium  ►  Central Iron Ore sells gold mines to buy iron ore projects
Central Iron Ore Limited announced that it has today entered into an Option and Asset Sale Agreement with Natural Resource Investments Pty Ltd, for sale of its British King and Eureka gold mines for... more 
  Strathmore Minerals orders feasibility study for its uranium mine in Mexico
Strathmore Minerals Corp. announce that Scott Wilson Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. (Scott Wilson RPA) has been contracted to prepare a Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) to evaluate the overall project... more 
  Uranium Resources announces 2009 Q4 and full year results
Uranium Resources, Inc., today provided an update on the Company's financial position as of the year ended December 31, 2009 and on its strategies and outlook for 2010 and beyond... more 
11 Mar 2010 Thorium  ►  India's Atomic Energy dept designs thorium-based reactor
The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has developed the design for a 300 MWe Advanced Heavy Water Reactor (AHWR) that is capable of generating most of its power from thorium-based fuel, as a... more 
Rare Earth  ►  Torch River identifies rare earths at Mount Copeland
Torch River Resources Ltd. announced geochemical and geophysical data compilation has identified REE targets on its 100% owned Mount Copeland mineral tenures. From the 2008 drill core samples (West... more 
  Lithium and rare earths markets poised for growth
One hybrid car requires 20 kilograms of lithium carbonate. By comparison, cellphone batteries need just a few grams. Some experts believe that as production of hybrid cars increases, so will the... more 
Uranium  ►  Canada sees recovery of uranium production
The world's second biggest uranium-exporting country has overcome a period of low ore grades and operation problems to reach production levels last seen in 2005... more 
  Spot uranium prices may rebound
It would seem we missed the monthly report on the uranium industry by consultant TradeTech in our reporting last week. Otherwise we would not have reported a small gap between weekly U3O8 spot prices... more 
10 Mar 2010 Neodymium  ►  Lanxess to expand neodymium-polybutadiene rubber capacity
The world's leading synthetic rubber company LANXESS has decided to expand the global capacity of its high-performance rubber Neodymium Polybutadiene (Nd-PBR)... more 
Rare Earth  ►  Quantum Rare Earth acquires Silver Mountain Mines Corp
Quantum Rare Earth Developments Corp. provided an update that the previously announced agreement to acquire Silver Mountain Mines Corp., a private Nevada corporation, is proceeding. On October 7,... more 
9 Mar 2010   True North options 65% of its Yukon rare earth discovery to Great Western Minerals
True North Gems Inc. and Great Western Minerals Group Ltd are pleased to announce that TGX has granted GWMG an option to acquire up to a 65% working interest in TGX's True Blue property in the Yukon... more 
  Uragold acquires Bulstrode rare earth property
Uragold Bay Resources Inc. (Uragold), is pleased to announce it has acquired by map staking 100% interest in the Bulstrode Rare Earth property located 28 km west of Thetford Mines, Eastern Townships,... more 
Thorium  ►  Senators push for thorium use in reactors
Senators Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) and Harry Reid (D-Nevada) this week introduced the Thorium Energy Security Act of 2010 to accelerate the use of thorium-based nuclear fuel in existing and future... more 
8 Mar 2010 Rare Earth  ►  Prices of metals will continue rising as economy stabilises
As the global economy recovers from the worst recession in 70 years, industrial metals are expected to stay on a recovery path this year, but metal producers warn that the advance may be slow as... more 
6 Mar 2010   Rare Earth Metals resumes drilling at its RE-niobium-iron deposit
Rare Earth Metals Inc is pleased to announce the resumption of drilling on the Clay-Howells project in northern Ontario. The drill program had been delayed in order to carry out discussions with a... more 
Uranium  ►  Forte Energy sells copper-cobalt project; uranium projects updates
- A$2M received on 22 February 2010 from settlement of the sale of Forte Energy's interest in the Maroochydore JV Copper/Cobalt project in Western Australia... more 
5 Mar 2010 Rare Earth  ►  Matamec Explorations intersect rare earths at its Kipawa Deposit
Matamec Explorations Inc. announced that the first group of assay results has been received for the November-December 2009 diamond drilling program on the Central part of the Kipawa REE-Y-Zr deposit... more 
  Diamonds North finds copper, silver, and bismuth at its Hepburn project
Diamonds North Resources Ltd. announces high grade copper, silver, and bismuth assays from recently discovered showings on its Hepburn copper-silver project located in the Northwest Territories. Grab... more 
  Rare earths investment could be the best opportunity out there
Rare earth may not sound a sexy investment, but with China controlling 97% of the world's production and threatening to tighten supply, billions is set to be channelled into finding new sources of... more 
  Azimut finds copper and gold at its REX Property in Nunavik, Quebec
Azimut Exploration Inc. ("Azimut") announces that further examination of the existing regional-scale geoscientific database covering the REX property area has led to the recognition of a large Iron... more