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Hartmann opined in late February 2024 that "back on March 13, 2020 — almost exactly four years ago — I wrote an article that was published at alternet.org laying out how Republicans were then, ten months before January 6th, planning to partially repeat the debacle of the election of 1876 by having Vice President Pence refuse to certify swing state votes and thus throw the election to the House to keep Trump in office, no matter how the election went.
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Read More...VOA News reported in late 2023 that Vietnam, with the world’s second-largest reserves of the rare earths used in such modern devices as electric vehicle batteries and smart phone screens, is intensifying mining of the critical minerals. The industry, though, faces high processing costs, environmental concerns, and the takedown of industry leaders for illegal mining and mineral sales.
Rare earth oxide samples are seen at mining company VTRE in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Read More...Hargrave reported in early 2024 that Uranium Energy Corp. has announced that it will resume operations at its mine and processing plant in southern Johnson County, Wyoming in August.
Christensen Ranch Satellite plant interior in Wyoming
Bulletin photo courtesy of Uranium Energy, Corp
The company and its board have been waiting for a consistent uranium market to commit to produc...
Read More...This brief article will discuss the top 5 rare earth companies’ market cap and working zones. If you want more information about the rare earth mining sector to see which names are leading the pack, read 10 Largest Rare Earth Companies In The World.
5. Energy Fuels (NYSE:UUUU)
Market Cap: $1.01 billion
Energy Fuels is a leading American enterprise that works in uranium mining and has a notable current market cap of $1.01 billion. The company is engaged in uranium extraction, a primary ingredient for the production of nuclear energy, and...
Read More...enCore Energy owns and operates three of the four licensed uranium production facilities in Texas. Each of enCore’s facilities are fully licensed and constructed, 100%-owned, and are past-producing uranium production facilities in Texas, a known and safe ISR uranium jurisdiction. There are currently only 11 licensed ISR plants in the United States.
enCore Energy is focused on executing our production plan in South Texas starting at the Rosita ISR Uranium Central Processing Plant (CPP) and Wellfield in 2023, to be closely followed by the Alt...
Read More...Pistilli reported in mid-March 2024 that rare earths often get lumped together for the sake of brevity, but the market dynamics for each element are actually quite varied.
Electric Vehicle Charging
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There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium.
It's a fairly diverse group, with each element...
Read More...Tekune reported in mid-March 2024 a critical review of current developments in the rare earth industry and key takeaways clients and other stakeholders should be aware of:
CNRE injects another $278.4M into processing plant expansion
China Northern Rare Earth Group (CNRE) announced that it will inject a further $278.4M into its subsidiary Baotou Huamei Rare Earth High Tech (Huamei) that is upgrading and renovating its processing facilities in Baotou to be the world's largest. Once completed, the plant will have capacity process 198,000...
Read More...Tekune reported in early Narch 2024 that Brazil unveiled strategic minerals investment fund. Last week Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) launched a $200M strategic minerals investment fund. The fund aims to spur exploration and development of strategic minerals in Brazil through investments in 15 to 20 promising companies.
BNDES will put up a 25% share of the fund through a $50M investment and additional domestic and foreign backers will be sought for the remainder to broaden the investor ba...
Read More... Lycaon Resouces reported in March 2024 that the West Arunta, Western Australia is quickly becoming a significant rare earths and copper province, with the recent Niobium-REE mineralised carbonatite discovery by WA1 Resources and Encounter Resources Worsley IOCG – REE discovery.
Hamlin reported in this review of salt-dome hydrogeology, which was based primarily on research supported by the Texas Department of Water Resources and the Texas Water Commission during 1984 and 1985.
Map of shallow salt domes in the Gulf Coast aquifer in Texas. Also showing
line of cross section in Figure 12-2 (compiled from Seni and others,
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