Rare Earths Shortages May Hurt Tech Firms Nov 7, 2009
In fact, Grillo is more generally concerned about the supply of important industrial metals like lithium and cobalt, for example, which are used in batteries, indium and gallium, used in thin-film solar modules, or tantalum, contained in the microchips used in mobile telephones. These are the sorts of metals that are essential in the production of quality, high-technology German products. (BusinessWeek)
Gossan Elects New Director at Annual Shareholders Meeting Oct 2, 2009
It has a well-diversified portfolio of properties hosting gold, platinum group and base metals, as well as the specialty and minor metals, tantalum, lithium, chromium, titanium and vanadium. The Company also has a large deposit of magnesium-rich dolomite, the world-wide rights to the Zuliani magnesium production process, and a silica sand deposit. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Turning up the Heat on Gadget Makers to Bring Peace to Congo Sep 19, 2009
And they make about U.S.$180 Million a year from the tin, tantalum, and tungsten ... Ultimately, what we want to see is a certification system for those four minerals [tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold ... It would be a temporary problem; the price of tin would go up a little bit; the price of tantalum would go up a little bit. (allAfrica.com)
High in sodium: Highly charged tungsten ions may diagnose fusion energy reactors Sep 10, 2009
The NIST scientists further checked their knowledge by measuring the spectrum of light from other sodium-like ions of hafnium, tantalum and gold. The researchers used NIST's electron beam ion trap (EBIT), which employs an electron beam to make, catch and study highly charged ions. (EurekAlert!)
Pacific Iron Corporation Announces 2009 Exploration Update and Release of June 30, 2009 Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis Aug 27, 2009
Management believes it may exhibit the potential for the rare metal pegmatite of Petalite (lithium), tantalum and tin. Results for the six months ended June 30, 2009. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Ethiopia: Country Secures Close to U.S.$100 Million from Precious Stones Aug 19, 2009
6 tons of ing gold, silver, tantalum and platinum concentrates and white marble, public relation service head with the ministry, Bacha Fuji told the state news agency on Sunday. The head was quoted the minerals were sold in the world market over the past Ethiopian fiscal year by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and MIDROC-Gold, an Ethiopian private mining firm. (allAfrica.com)
TNR Gold Corp. Granted Eight Lithium Pegmatite Belt Licenses in Ireland/Commences Exploration Program Aug 18, 2009
The receipt of the licences initiates the Blackstairs Lithium-Tantalum Project which will focus on evaluation of the approximately nineteen pegmatites that make up the Leinster Pegmatite Belt for lithium, tantalum and related rare elements ... Since the lithium exploration in the 1970s attention of subsequent explorers has focused on tantalum, particularly in the southern half of the belt. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Meteorite mineral made in the lab Aug 12, 2009
"We launched a tantalum bullet that struck the steel chamber and generated a shock wave that travelled through the steel and into the sample," explained Paul Asimow, an author of the study, also a researcher at Caltech. Tenham H6, a well-studied meteorite contains wadsleyite. (BBC News -- Science)
TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins for August 7, 2009 Aug 8, 2009
The TSX Venture Exchange has accepted Pacific Wildcat Resources Corp.'s (the "Company's") Company's Reverse Take-Over ("RTO"), which includes the following transactions: Tantalum Mineracao e Prospeccao Limitada Acquisition: The Company entered into an Acquisition Agreement (the "Acquisition Agreement"), dated for reference April 7, 2009, with Bolan Holdings Limited (the "Vendor"), an arm's length private company incorporated in the Seychelles, and Tantalum Mineracao e Prospeccao Limitada... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Atlas Iron on track to expand Aug 4, 2009
" Mr Flanagan said Atlas was on track to achieve its goal to lift annual output from one million tonnes (Mt) to 12Mt by 2012. This would make Atlas the fourth largest iron ore miner in Australia behind the much-larger BHP Billiton Ltd, Rio Tinto Ltd and Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. Atlas already is largest landholder within 150km from Port Hedland. The company last month decided to proceed with its second mine, Wodgina. The project is expected to cost less than $10 million to develop because... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Needs Foreign Intruders to Leave, Says Church Head Jul 24, 2009
The country with a population of around 69 million has substantial deposits of diamonds, copper, cobalt, zinc, manganese, uranium, niobium and tantalum. Tantalum is a hard, corrosive-resistant mineral. (allAfrica.com)
Pacific Iron Ore Corporation Announces the Completion of the Technical Report on Separation Property Jul 8, 2009
Pegmatites are host to many rare and exotic metals such as tantalum, niobium, tin, lithium, rubidium and cesium. Tanco's Bernic Lake pegmatite in Manitoba, Bikita in Zimbabwe and the Greenbushes in Australia are some of the better known pegmatite deposits currently being mined for their lithium and/or tantalum content. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Drilling Results for Commerce Resources Eldor Tantalum, Niobium, Rare Earth Project in Quebec Jun 3, 2009
VANCOUVER, June 3 /CNW/ - Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXv: CCE) (FSE: D7H) (the "Company") is pleased to announce drilling results from the 2008 exploration program at the Eldor Tantalum, Niobium and Rare Earth Property in northern Quebec, Canada (the "Property"). During 2008, 26 holes, totaling 5,842 meters, were completed at the following locations: - Star Trench Area - 1 drill hole - Northwest Area - 12 drill holes, 2,466 m - Southeast Area - 13 drill holes, 2,773 m The drilling program was... (Canada Newswire)
San Anton Capital Inc. Announces Proposed Qualifying Transaction With Chevalier Resources Inc. May 21, 2009
Mr Dufresne is a member of the Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec, and of the Tantalum & Niobium International Study Center (TIC). Simeon Tshisangama, Director, is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TSM Enterprise sprl ("TSM"), a reputable Congolese company with vast experience in small scale mining operations, especially with base metals, notably copper, cobalt and tin. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Scoop: Neighbor: Jon and Kate in it for money May 20, 2009
Their campaign to raise awareness of conflict metals tin, tungsten, tantalum in the Congo features Marie Louise Parker, Sandra Oh, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Read Stephen Kings. (MSNBC -- Gossip)
Africa: Lifting the 'Resource Curse' May 19, 2009
Likewise, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), armed groups profit from the sale of the "conflict minerals" tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold, which are used in electronics around the world, by forcibly controlling the mines and exacting bribes, or taxes, from transporters, local and international buyers, and border controls ... The Congo Conflict Minerals Act that would require U.S. companies selling products using tin, tantalum or tungsten, to disclose the country of origin of the... (allAfrica.com)
Congo-Kinshasa: U.S. Congress Moving to Track 'Conflict Minerals' May 16, 2009
Durbin, along with Senators Sam Brownback, Republican from Kansas, Russell Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, and Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, are sponsoring the Congo Conflict Minerals Act that would require U.S. companies selling products using tin, tantalum or tungsten, to disclose the country of origin of the materials to the Securities and Exchange Commission ... The "conflict minerals" - tin (cassiterite), tantalum (coltan or columbite-tantalite), and tungsten (wolframite) - are... (allAfrica.com)
'Blood tantalum' in your mobile phone May 8, 2009
Blood tantalum' in your mobile phone ... Tantalum is a rare metal with unique properties ... Almost two-thirds of the world's tantalum production ends up in high quality capacitors that are used in devices such as mobile phones and other electronic gadgets. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Black gold dust: May 8, 2009
Out of Africa: the blood tantalum in your mobile phone - Technology - smh ... Out of Africa: the blood tantalum in your mobile phone ... Clockwise: Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout in his Thai jail cell; Talison's Peter Robinson and processed tantalum powder. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Out of Africa: the blood tantalum in your mobile phone May 8, 2009
Clockwise: Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout in his Thai jail cell; Talison's Peter Robinson and processed tantalum powder ... Tantalum is a rare metal with unique properties ... Almost two-thirds of the world's tantalum production ends up in high quality capacitors that are used in devices such as mobile phones and other electronic gadgets. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Chinese businessman indicted in Iran sale Apr 8, 2009
The list of materials that LIMMT shipped to the Defense Industries Organization includes thousands of pounds of a specialized aluminum alloy used almost exclusively in long-range missile production and tantalum, a mineral used in armor-piercing projectiles, Morgenthau said. LIMMT and Iran were in talks to have the company send 400 gyroscopes, 600 accelerometers and 100 pieces of tantalum. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Congo-Kinshasa: Electronics Firms Urged to Boycott 'Blood Minerals' Apr 2, 2009
"Armed groups generate an estimated 144 million dollars each year by trading four main minerals: the ores that produce the metals tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold." ... The conflict minerals - tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold - are moved from Congo to countries in East Asia where they are processed into valuable metals needed for the manufacture of a wide range of electronics products ... Trade in tantalum, which is used to store electricity in capacitors in iPods, digital cameras, and cell... (allAfrica.com)
Verona plant searched for missing toxic mixture Feb 24, 2009
Also in the building, according to Mr. Pena, were other materials used in the abrasives production process, including semi-precious metals cobalt, tungsten and tantalum, and more than 300,000 carats of industrial diamond powder. The diamond abrasives company closed at the end of 2003 and the factory site was sold "as is" for $50,000 in March 2006 by Mahady & Mahady, a Greensburg law firm that was the court-appointed executor of his father's estate. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Hudson Resources Inc.: 2008 Garnet Lake Bulk Sample Diamond Results; Additional High-Grade Niobium-Uranium Results Feb 20, 2009
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Feb. 19, 2009) - HUDSON RESOURCES INC. ("Hudson" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: - ) is pleased to announce diamond results from the 2008 bulk sampling program at Hudson's Garnet Lake diamond property and additional assay results from the Sarfartoq Niobium-Uranium-Tantalum-Rare Earth Element (REE) Project in Greenland ... A second sample from the Sarfartoq Carbonatite Project further indicates the very high grades of this niobium-uranium-tantalum-REE... (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
