Rio powers up lithium mine for battery boom
Jadar is so rich in lithium, it could make Rio a top-three producer while providing a low-cost supply of borates.
Jadar is so rich in lithium, it could make Rio a top-three producer while providing a low-cost supply of borates.
Shares in rare earths miner Lynas jumped 18.9 per cent on the news that its lenders had extended repayments.
Everyone is jumping on the lithium bandwagon, but the newcomers are up against a close-knit clique.
Lynas has earned a reprieve with its lenders agreeing to postpone payments due in May and September until December.
Tintin remains dear to many Europeans, inside and outside Belgium.
Australia's Lynas Corp blamed illegal Chinese miners for adding to an oversupply of rare earths.
Rare earths miner Lynas has narrowed its full year net loss to $118.60 million, from $345.40 million in the previous year, helped by cost reductions and higher sales.
Rare earths miner Lynas has more than doubled its annual revenue as its production rapidly increases.
The collapse of US rare earths miner Molycorp cannot bode well for local player Lynas Corp.
Amanda Lacaze accepts with an easy chuckle the idea that she might be leading Australia's toughest turnaround task.
China has scrapped quotas on rare earths exports and will probably replace them with a resources tax.
Chanticleer | Until last week there was a deadly smell surrounding rare earths producer Lynas.
Northern Minerals has received a green light from Western Australia for its Browns Range rare earths project and secured $6m funding from Macquarie Bank.
Lynas Corp faces a cash crisis at the end of the September quarter unless they find solutions to their significant funding, pricing and production problems.
Cash-strapped rare earths producer Lynas is understood to be rattling the tin for $30 million, after entering a trading halt on Wednesday.
China has broken international trade law by restricting the export of rare earth elements and other metals crucial to modern manufacturing, a World Trade Organisation panel found.
Peak Resources share price fired up nearly 30 per cent on the day it released the results of a Preliminary Feasibility Study (PFS) relating to its wholly owned Ngualla rare earths project in Tanzania.
Integrated mining and ore processing company Lynas Corp is being smashed in the Australian stockmarket as it struggles to transition from start-up phase to world-leading rare-earths producer.
The clock is ticking for Lynas to secure more cash funding as it ramps up production, with shares in the rare earths’ miner slumping to an almost five-year low following a larger first-half loss that triggered a warning from its auditor about its ability to continue trading.
No listed company has faced a full spill of the board under the controversial two strikes rule on executive pay, despite 40 second strikes and more than 1500 shareholder meetings.
The recent trajectory of Lynas Corporation will be familiar to any veteran in the mining industry.
J P Morgan has maintained an ‘overweight’ listing on rare earths miner Lynas Corp with a 12-month price target of 65¢.
This newspaper’s former Chanticleer columnist Alan Jury is the latest big name to depart FTI Consulting, hot on the heels of Third Person founder Ross Thornton. Jury joins rare earths producer Lynas Corp as head of corporate affairs. The latest defection leaves the firm even more reliant on Thornton’s former partner Jim Kelly, the last of the Tripods. Watch this space.
Lynas Corporation says a state-based High Court in Malaysia has denied an application by environmental activists to seek a judicial review the licensing process for its rare earths processing plant.
A convoy of cars carrying protesters has driven across Malaysia in the latest demonstration against an Australian rare earths plant that activists claim will produce dangerous radioactive waste.
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