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China rare earths fears overblown but U.S. policy foolish

Monday , 06 Sep 2010
Hard Assets Investors' Lara Crigger interviews rare earths expert Jack Lifton who feels rare earths worries are overhyped and that the U.S. has been foolish in closing down its facilities.

Saskatchewan considering potash royalty system change

Friday , 03 Sep 2010
The Premier for the Western Canadian province said in an interview that in the longer term some royalty changes could be possible, to take the bias away from prices and more toward volumes

MagIndustries reassessing options for Congo potash mine

Tuesday , 31 Aug 2010
The Canadian miner said it was considering its options as China's Complant, which had agreed to buy a majority stake in the project may not get approval for the deal

Diplomatic row escalating over China's rare earths export curbs

Monday , 30 Aug 2010
China's tight controls over rare earth exports is causing major concern and a serious diplomatic row is looming.

Potash M&A Mania

Monday , 30 Aug 2010
As mining headlines around the world are consumed with BHP's bid for Potash Corp, Chinese investment funds seem spurred into action

Canada Lithium aims to restart historic Quebec Lithium operation

Monday , 30 Aug 2010
Canada Lithium is aiming to resurrect the former Quebec Lithium Mine with the aim of supplying the growing need of Detroit's auto industry for lithium batteries to power hybrid and electric cars.

BHP begins Potash charm offensive

Thursday , 26 Aug 2010
BHP CEO is to fly to North America this week in a bid to convince Potash Corp shareholders of the merits of a deal between the two firms

New energy efficient, environmentally friendly, process to produce electrolytic manganese

Thursday , 26 Aug 2010
A U.S. patent has been filed for a new process for extracting high purity manganese from low grade ores.

Agrium says BHP would be "crazy" to leave Canpotex consortium

Thursday , 26 Aug 2010
Agrium CEO, Mike Wilson, said Wednesday the group would continue to market its potash through the Canpotex consortium adding it is one of the strongest marketing arms, he has ever seen

New tantalum discovery for Noventa in Mozambique

Wednesday , 25 Aug 2010
A new tantalum discovery on the company's Marropino licence area has given shares in AIM-listed Noventa a boost.

Potash Corp continues to seek counter-bids

Monday , 23 Aug 2010
"Potash Corp has been approached by, and has initiated contact with, a number of third parties who have expressed an interest in considering alternative transactions," the company said in a statement on Monday.

PotashCorp may have to go to China in its search of better offers

Friday , 20 Aug 2010
As BHP Billiton made its $139bn offer formal PotashCorp continued its search for a white knight with deeper pockets

S&P worries potash's future may not be lucrative as BHP predicts

Friday , 20 Aug 2010
While BHP's hostile takeover bid for PotashCorp may make more financial sense than relying on the greenfields potash projects, navigating a future supply-demand balance could be somewhat risky.

Ottawa, Saskatchewan weigh implications of BHP/ PotashCorp takeover bid

Thursday , 19 Aug 2010
As BHP and PotashCorp gear up for battle in BHP's hostile takeover bid, Ottawa and Saskatchewan have cause for concern about the future of the world's top potash-producing region.

A potential USD 224bn global resources giant

Wednesday , 18 Aug 2010
BHP Billiton's bid for PotashCorp sets the global resources sector alight, if consummated one of the world's most valuable stocks, of any kind, would emerge .

BHP potash plans to help feed the billion Chinese

Wednesday , 18 Aug 2010
BHP's bid for Potash Corp is an attempt to make a major move into what the mining giant sees as yet another major bulk commodity sector driven by Chinese needs.

Potash - Mining's green frontier

Wednesday , 18 Aug 2010
A Canadian icon, PotashCorp, calls BHP Billiton's takeover offer "grossly inadequate"; BHP has now gone hostile

Russian potash giant in the making?

Monday , 16 Aug 2010
Investors friendly to Uralkali''s owner brought stakes in rival company Silvinit. A merger could create a company controlled 45% if the market with partner Belaruskali

Rio Tinto considering Uralkali stake

Thursday , 12 Aug 2010
Sources say the transnational miner is considering acquiring a stake in the Russian potash producer

Neo Material Q2 results beat estimates

Thursday , 12 Aug 2010
The Canadian processor of minor metals said earnings were boosted by a recovery in Asian demand and said it is not affected by Chinese export quotas

K+S potash forecast uplift underlines growing world demand

Thursday , 12 Aug 2010
The German salt miner raised its potash sales volume forecast on the back of forecast-beating Q2 results.

Chinese rare earth miners considering unified prices - Official newspaper

Tuesday , 10 Aug 2010
According to China Daily, the country's leading rare earth miners may launch a unified pricing mechanism for the metals which are used in an increasing number of applications