rare earth elements

Source: Jon OggMolycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is a company which manages to keep disappointing and punishing just about any shareholder who dares to listen. The only major rare earth materials company in...
Source: ThinkstockMolycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is becoming an expert at screwing its investors. If anyone wanted a “death before dilution” company in their portfolio, they have been slaughtered over...
Source: Jon OggMolycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is showing its new shareholders buying into the rare earths trade late in the game that it still has a tendency to shaft the value of their investment in the...
Source: ThinkstockOver the past five days, shares of three companies focused on rare earth mineral production have climbed more than 10% while the S&P 500 has managed to stay barely better than flat....
Source: ThinkstockOnce an investor’s darling, Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) has not aged well. The rare earths miner’s shares hit a post-IPO high of around $75 a share in April 2011, but the decline...
Source: ThinkstockIn an announcement that its new manufacturing complex at Mountain Pass, Calif., is now operational and ramping production, Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) glossed over a few more basic...
U.S. rare earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) announced after markets closed today that it had begun production at its Project Phoenix concentrate facilities in Mountain Pass, California....
Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) reported a second quarter adjusted EPS loss of $0.03 and $107.6 million in revenue after markets closed today. Adjusted EPS for the same period a year ago totaled $0.52, and...
Led by the country’s largest producer of rare earth minerals, China is reported to be preparing the launch of a spot trading platform for rare earth minerals on August 8th. Reuters cites a report...
The current slump in prices for rare earth minerals despite a Chinese curb on exports could turn around in a couple of years if the Chinese succeed in developing their own downstream industries that...
Rare earths miner Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (NYSEMKT: AVL) today reported the results of a resource estimate for its Nechalacho Deposit in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The report shows a Measured...
Rare earth minerals miner Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) held its IPO just less than two years ago, in late July 2010, at an offering price of $14/share, below the anticipated range of $15-$17. Shares...
In March the US, the European Union, and Japan filed complaints with the World Trade Organization (WTO) accusing China of violating free trade rules by limiting exports of rare earth minerals which...
The trend from rare earth moves usually seems to be like a China-regulatory move, but that is not the case today.  We have an emerging player which has delayed a feasibility study and another...