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Running the Gauntlet: Rare Earths, Specialty Metals and Turf Wars Inside the Beltway – Part 4
This is the last in a four-part series of articles on the current scrutiny being given to rare earths by the US Congress and US Department of Defense, in the context of national security considerations. The third part can be accessed here. The full white paper can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. [...]
Continue reading...Running the Gauntlet: Rare Earths, Specialty Metals and Turf Wars Inside the Beltway – Part 3
27. September 2009
This is the third in a four-part series of articles on the current scrutiny being given to rare earths by the US Congress and US Department of Defense, in the context of national security considerations. The second part can be accessed here. The full white paper can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. [...]
Continue reading...Running the Gauntlet: Rare Earths, Specialty Metals and Turf Wars Inside the Beltway – Part 2
27. September 2009
This is the second in a four-part series of articles on the current scrutiny being given to rare earths by the US Congress and US Department of Defense, in the context of national security considerations. The first part can be accessed here. The full white paper can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. [...]
Continue reading...Running the Gauntlet: Rare Earths, Specialty Metals and Turf Wars Inside the Beltway – Part 1
27. September 2009
This is the first in a four-part series of articles on the current scrutiny being given to rare earths by the US Congress and US Department of Defense, in the context of national security considerations. The full white paper can be downloaded as a PDF file from here. Introduction The rare earths are a group [...]
Continue reading...The Sky Is Not Falling: A Different Perspective On The Chinese MIIT Report On Rare Earths
1. September 2009
In recent days we’ve seen a flurry of activity concerning reports that the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has called for a total ban on foreign shipments of certain rare earths elements. These reports also claim that other rare earth metals including neodymium, would be restricted to a combined export quota of 35,000 [...]
Continue reading...New White Paper On Rare Earths & Specialty Metals
24. August 2009
I have just uploaded the pre-print of a new white paper titled “Running the Gauntlet: Rare Earths, Specialty Metals and Turf Wars Within the Beltway“. I started work on this after discovering that rare earth materials feature prominently in current legislation going through the US Congress. Posted below are the first few paragraphs of the [...]
Continue reading...Molycorp Lays Out Game Plan For Future Mining
12. August 2009
Yesterday, Molycorp Minerals, LLC issued a press release laying out its plans for renewed mining of rare earth materials at its Mountain Pass facility in California. Molycorp indicates that they plan to get through processing the currently stockpiled ore from previous mining activities, before resuming active mining again in 2012. After enough ore has been [...]
Continue reading...Dates Announced For China Magnetics 2009 Conference
29. July 2009
Earlier today IntertechPira, the organizers of the China Magnetics Conference series, announced details of the 8th Conference in the series, to take place October 26-28, 2009 in Shanghai, China. The organizers indicate that this important event will bring together “all parts of the permanent magnets supply chain for an in-depth discussion of recent developments, as [...]
Continue reading...MEMIG: Magnetism and Electromagnetics at Linkedin
24. July 2009
Late last year I started a Group over at Linkedin, the well-known business networking web site. After going through a couple of iterations for the name, we finally settled on the only slightly unwieldy Magnetism & Electromagnetics Interest Group or MEMIG for short. The idea of MEMIG is to bring together all kinds of people [...]
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27. September 2009
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