Industrial Minerals


IM Global Rare Earths Roundup: 13-20 January

20 January 2012

by Mark Watts

A brief look at the rest of the week’s rare earth stories in the news

Keywords: Lynas, Namibia Rare Earths, Pacific Wildcate, Texas Rare Earth

Lynas Corp. has increased the resource estimate of its Mount Weld rare earths project in Western Australia, the company said.

The total resource estimate for Mount Weld is now 23.9m tonnes at an average grade of 7.9% rare earth oxide (REO), for a total of 1.9m tonnes REO.

Lynas began mining at Mount Weld in 2011 and intends...