Avalon Rare Metals Inc. shares are currently trading off about 6.5% on the day.
Recycling of indium along with other rare metals (3) will also prove pivotal.
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Some materials in solar modules such as silicon and rare metals could be more valuable in the future, providing an additional incentive to recycle.
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The tightening of America's trade rules has resulted in a virtual standstill in mining in the volatile eastern part of the country, until recently the source of rare metals used by American manufacturers.
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Even if there remains some dispute over the exact figures used, what the study does highlight is the importance of developing an integrated paradigm of production and recycling for algal fuel production, as I stressed before in the context of rare metals such as are required to maintain the electronics and solar power industries.
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He was questioned on the mining and future availability of metals such as cobalt, platinum and titanium, as well as so-called "rare earth metals" which as used in magnets and nanotechnology.
If there is a bubble in rare earth metals, China is likely to blame.
Honda Motor, for instance, said it would start recycling rare earth metals from used batteries.
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Examples discussed included export restrictions in China on rare earth metals and in Indonesia on palm oil.
Rare earths metals play a large role in current modern technology, cruise missiles and other weapons systems.
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Rare earth metals are a key component of products such as MRI scanners and computer hard drives.
Idaho also boasts a large vein deposit of thorium and rare earth metals.
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Which is fine, there could be a shortage of rare earth metals.
For example, we know very well that it is possible to extract the rare earth metals from the wastes of alumina production.
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So if someone calls you up and suggests that you might like to invest a bit in physical quantities of rare earth metals.
China holds most of the processing capacity for rare earths metals.
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For the thing is, rare earth metals, actual physical stocks of them, are an incredibly bad thing for retail investors to be trying to invest in.
Low demand during 2011 was caused by high rare earths prices from both heavy and light rare earths metals, which despite their fluttering prices, remain historically high.
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China produces some 90% of the global supply of rare earth metals today, but sits atop only about half of the world's estimated reserves of the elements.
As it says over there in the sidebar my day job involves dealing with one of the rare earth metals and one of my suppliers is in Russia.
With China as a recently unreliable provider of Rare Earth Metals to the world, several companies are reactivating plans for North American production of these elements which are essential to the production of cell phones, laptops, tablets, magnets and other defense electronic devices.
But if you really want to dig behind the headlines (about things like stellar IPOs, trade issues, COP16, territorial disputes, rare earth metals, even Shanghai test scores), you need to take a quick look more on that later at what may well be the definitive guide to China, or at least the most up-to-date.
Also present in the region are lithium, vanadium, and rare-earth metals, not to mention a potential for uranium and diamonds.
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Asteroids could yield precious minerals such as gold, platinum and rare-Earth metals.
Japanese Prime Minister Kan said Sunday, after meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, in Hanoi, that Vietnam chose Japan as a partner to mine rare-earth metals and to develop nuclear power in the Communist country, the Associated Press reported.
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That is, either the mixed rare earth concentrates or as the separated individual salts or metals of the rare earths.
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Rare gems and precious metals, made into fabulous designs by renowned craftsmen, have often served as symbols of wealth and power.
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