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TSX:EMC www.emcmetals.com VANCOUVER, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - EMC Metals Corp. (the "Company" or "EMC") (TSX:EMC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement with Mineral Exploration Services LLC of Reno, Nevada, pursuant to which EMC has an option to earn a 100% interest in a patented mining claim and former scandium property, known as The Little Green Monster, near the town of Fairfield, Utah.  The property represents a high-grade scandium...

Scientists at Berkeley Lab find nanoparticle size is readily controlled to make stronger aluminum alloysLong before they knew they were doing it "“ as long ago as the Wright Brother's first airplane engine "“ metallurgists were incorporating nanoparticles in aluminum to make a strong, hard, heat-resistant alloy. The process is called solid-state precipitation, in which, after the melt has been quickly cooled, atoms of alloying metals migrate through a solid matrix and gather themselves in...

TSX:EMC www.emcmetals.com VANCOUVER, July 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - EMC Metals Corp. (the "Company" or "EMC") (TSX:EMC) is pleased to announce encouraging assay results from a surface soil sampling program conducted in June on a 3.75 sq km portion of its Tørdal property, a scandium, REE, and specialty metals pegmatite project in Telemark county, southern Norway. Highlights of Initial Surface Soil Sample Program: -- The best sample assay returned a 217 ppm...

Rice researchers find metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goalsNew research by Rice University scientists suggests that a class of material known as metallacarborane could store hydrogen at or better than benchmarks set by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program for 2015.The work could receive wide attention as hydrogen comes into play as a fuel of the future for cars, in fuel cells and by industry.The new study by Rice theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his...

TSX: EMC www.emcmetals.com VANCOUVER, July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - July 28, 2010 - EMC Metals Corp. (the "Company" or "EMC") (TSX: EMC) is pleased to announce that it has received an independent engineering report, titled, "Scandium Recovery From Gilgai Laterite" (the "Report"), outlining the estimated capital and operating costs for a 200 tonne per day ("tpd") facility to extract and recover scandium oxide (Sc(2)O(3)) from resources at the Nyngan (Gilgai) scandium deposit. The Report,...

TSX: EMC www.emcmetals.com VANCOUVER, March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - EMC Metals Corp. (TSX:EMC) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received a NI 43-101 technical report and mineral resource estimate for its Nyngan Gilgai Scandium property in New South Wales, Australia. EMC is developing this property in a joint venture with Jervois Mining Ltd. (Jervois) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The full report will be filed with SEDAR. Mr. Willem Duyvesteyn, an EMC director and...

TSX: EMC NR 10-01 www.emcmetals.com VANCOUVER, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - EMC Metals Corp. (TSX: EMC) is pleased to announce the formation of a Joint Venture with Jervois Mining Limited of Melbourne (Jervois), Victoria, Australia to develop Jervois' world class Nyngan Scandium deposit located in New South Wales, Australia. "EMC's mandate for growth is to aggressively pursue opportunities in specialty and unusual metals. In December 2009 we acquired TTS Inc. and the...

ROUYN-NORANDA, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - June 19, 2008) - GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. (TSX:GMX)(FRANKFURT:G1M)(FRANKFURT, STUTTGART, BERLIN, MUNICH, XETRA:G1M)(OTCQX:GLBXF) is pleased to update shareholders, as regards work from the 2007 Summer season on Globex's 100% owned Hunters Point property. Work undertaken by Noront Resources Ltd. on Globex's Hunters Point Property in 2007, while the property was under option to them, included ground geophysics (scintillometer and Beep Mat surveys) and...