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Madagascar rare earth prospect

02 December 2009

by Mike O'Driscoll

Tantalus Rare Earths aims to develop its rare earth, niobium, and tantalum deposit

Keywords: Tantalus Rare Earths, niobium, tantalum, rare earths, bastnaesite, monazite

Tantalus Rare Earths AG is planning to list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by the first quarter of 2010 and generate interest in developing its Tantalus rare earths (RE) project in northern Madagascar.

Describing itself as the “mother company holding the project”, Dusseldorf, Germany-based Tantalus claims that the planned offering would represent an excellent opportunity for investors in RE.

Tantalus apparently...