Last weekend, supported by the positive news of the release of national rare earth management regulations, rare earth oxide prices rose rapidly. Rare earth metal plants followed suit to raise their quotations. The offer of Pr-Nd a…
The Chinese government has introduced a slew of new measures designed to tighten its grip on lucrative natural resources used in everything from electric cars to wind turbines. In a list released by the country's State Council on …
A UK start-up has used AI (artificial intelligence) to design and create a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet material that, it claims, can be produced at 20% of the cost and with 70% less carbon emissions (measured in CO2/kg) t…
The market for affordable cartridges got slightly hotter this week with Rega announcing a new moving magnet model called the Nd5. We start with the Nd5’s cantilever which protrudes, as usual, from the headshell to ‘read’ the recor…
CONCEPCIÓN, Chile — The churning blast furnaces of shrinking steelworks and the glowing flare stack of an oil refinery mark the aging industrial landscape around Concepción in southern Chile. Not long ago, a historic ceramics fact…
In a first, Canada has blocked the sale of stockpiled rare earth elements mined in the far north to a Chinese corporation that dominates the field, a senior government official divulged Tuesday. However, more similar interventions…