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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- America needs to create a Strategic Metals Reserve to protect its manufacturing capabilities and defense posture in case of an embargo--especially by China--according to Michael Silver, president and chairman of the board of American Elements, a global manufacturer of engineered and advanced materials, including rare earth metals and chemicals. Silver says Congress should immediately establish the U.S. Strategic Metals Reserve (SMR) structured...

CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill., Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology Metals Research, LLC (TMR), a leading provider of market intelligence and analysis of the rare-earths sector, today announced the publication of its Critical Rare Earths Report, containing global supply and demand projections and rankings of the leading contenders for new sources of supply. The use of rare earths can have a profound effect on the performance of many engineered systems. China currently dominates the supply of...

NEW YORK AND MONTREAL, May 10 /PRNewswire/ - Canwealth Minerals Corporation and partner ICBS Ltd., (OTCPK: ICBT), announced today that its Shadow Mountain property in South Western Quebec in a highly favourable VMS (Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide) type mineral deposit, representing over 7200 acres, has received detail assay report on the Rare Earth Elements. Positive results from AGAT Laboratories assay office for substantial amounts of Cerium, Lanthanum and Neodymium Rare Earth...

TORONTO, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovation Metals Corp. this week announced a proposed joint-venture partnership with Advanced Material Japan Corporation, to build a new rare-earth separation facility in Southeast Asia. The new facility, expected to be completed in mid-2012, will process rare-earth concentrate feeds from a variety of sources, in Asia and elsewhere. "The rare-earths industry is so critical, yet so fragmented, that many issues arise from not having a common voice,"...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Garb Oil & Power Corporation ("Garb") (Pink Sheets: GARB) has technology and know-how to facilitate the extraction of Rare Earth Minerals from Electronic Waste. Garb plans to build 30 EWaste plants across the United States by 2015, which recover rare earth minerals from consumer electronic waste. The plants will separate rare earth minerals and re-melt them to sell as a commodity. In the last 3 months prices for rare earth minerals have...

TSX-V: RES & AMEX: REE VANCOUVER, March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: RES and AMEX: REE) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jaye T. Pickarts, P.E. as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Company. His principal focus will be to lead the technical team in advancing the Company's Bear Lodge Rare-Earths Project, located in Wyoming, through the development phase and into production. Mr. Pickarts has provided...

It's not hard to argue in favor of alternatives to fossil fuels these days, but one popular argument "“ domestic energy security "“ may be standing on very shaky legs. A lot of rare metals are needed to make photovoltaic panels, rare earth magnets for wind generators, fuel cells and high-capacity batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. But most industrialized nations, including the United States, are almost entirely dependent on foreign sources for those metals. The only way this is...

AMEX: REE & TSX-V: RES VANCOUVER, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: RES and AMEX: REE) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of a Scoping Study (the "Study") (an NI 43-101 compliant "Preliminary Economic Assessment" or "PEA") on the rare-earth resources delineated on its 100% owned Bear Lodge project, located in northeastern Wyoming, USA. Highlights of the Study are summarized in the Table 1 below, with additional commentary following....

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based American Elements issued a statement today confirming that it continues to produce and ship rare earth metals and compounds globally during this period of uncertainty in the Chinese rare earth market. The statement is intended primarily to advise U.S., European and Japanese companies that rely on American Elements' rare earth production and global stocks. "We've been inundated with requests for assurance of our continued...

Researchers discover evidence for the oldest Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin IslandResearchers have found a primitive Earth mantle reservoir on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Geologist Matthew Jackson and his colleagues from a multi-institution collaboration report the finding--the first discovery of what may be a primitive Earth mantle--this week in the journal Nature.The Earth's mantle is a rocky, solid shell that is between the Earth's crust and the outer core, and makes up about...