China is likely to purchase billions of yuan of rare-earth minerals starting next month to bolster its strategic reserves, industry sources said.

[ferro-alloys.com]The US government not only wants to wean itself off foreign oil supply but also rare earth supply and the secret may lie in old mines' tailings deposits, the Associated Press reports.

[ferro-alloys.com]A total of $829 million has been raised to explore Africa for metals and minerals over the last two years.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Japan’s Sumitomo Mining to build first rare earth mineral plant in the Philippines

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. Ltd (SMM) is building a scandium recovery plant in Palawan later this year, and expects the pilot facility to operate in 2014.

World Trade Organization probe? What World Trade Organization probe?

Japan will launch a survey of its Pacific seabed, an official said Thursday, hoping to find rare earth deposits large enough to supply its high-tech industries and reduce its dependence on China.

China's largest rare earths producer on Tuesday announced that it will continue to halt some of its production for a third month to help stabilize tumbling prices.