American Resources Corporation, a socially responsible supplier of rare earths and critical elements, carbon and advanced carbon materials for new infrastructure and electrification markets, announced that its subsidiary American Rare Earth LLC (ARE) has partnered with a leading applied research institute and collaborative organization, the Indiana Innovation Institute (IN3), to further ensure the company’s commercial production of critical elements and rare earth elements such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium at its production facilities.

Supply concerns of ferrotungsten (FeW) in Europe are growing as the Russia-Ukraine conflict has hampered trade and deliveries of Russian alloys, leaving China as the main source of supply to the continent.

Tungsten West has appointed Fairport Engineering Ltd. as the engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) contractor for its Hemerdon tungsten-tin project in the U.K. The company will also soon receive seven X-ray Transport (XRT)-based ore sorters from TOMRA.

Yttrium is a lanthanide metal found in most rare earth minerals, especially yttrium tantalite. It can be used as the yttrium phosphor to produce the red color on television screens and monitors and used as a superconductor and as a component of X-ray filters and superalloys. When added to tungsten as a rare earth element, it can be used as a welding electrode.