Japan’s Showa Denko has stopped production at its rare earth metals plants in China as demand from Japanese electronics device makers for magnets has declined. Continue reading →

On Wednesday Chinese state media has announced the launching of a trading platform for its rare earth metals in a bid to boost its pricing power over its strategic resource where it dominates global production of REE’s. Continue reading →

US-based Planetary Resources a company backed by entrepreneurs including James Cameron and Larry Page which was set up for mining asteroids for rare earth metals is to receive an unexpected boost of investment. Continue reading →

The fight over the minerals that run the electronic world entered a new phase in March when the United States, the European Union and Japan collectively filed a case against China, accusing the rare earth metal powerhouse of violating world trade rules to manipulate mineral prices. Continue reading →

A PANEL has been set up by the World Trade Organisation which will examine China’s restrictive rare earth metal export policies. The decision to go ahead with this panel was made at yesterday’s (Monday) WTO Dispute Settlement Body state London Metal Group spokesperson Continue reading →

London Metal Group confirm the World Trade Organisation (WTO) will meet on July 23 to decide if it will set up a panel to examine China’s export policies on rare earth metals, tungsten and molybdenum. This follows last week’s block by China at the first WTO Dispute Settlement Body meeting. Continue reading →

THE March 2012 request by the US, EU, Canada and Japan for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to set up dispute settlement panels to decide if China’s export restrictions on rare earth metals is being discussed this morning (Tuesday) by the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body, a London Metal Group source has revealed. Continue reading →

An Australian mining company of rare earth minerals has found its self on the wrong side of a social media campaign. Its decision to build a rare earth minerals processing plant in Malaysia has met with stiff opposition. Continue reading →

What do a Prius and an iPhone have in common? Both depend on the same rare earth metal: neodymium. In the Prius, it stabilizes the magnets that make the electric engine go. In the iPhone, it makes the phone vibrate when there is an incoming call or a new email message or text. Continue reading →