"The fundamentals of La Parrilla are ever more competitive with the tungsten price increase of over 50% to more than US$310/mtu in the past 9 months." European mine developer W Resources PLC (LON:WRES) highlighted a significant recovery in Tungsten prices in 2017, up around 50% in the year to date.

Analysis of latest China tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online: Bearish sentiment is rife in the tungsten market following low long-term negotiated price released by large enterprises this week. Trading volume in the spot market is gloomy and the major problem for market is when the price will stop declining. 

A new material uses sunlight as a catalyst to break down the molecular structure of synthetic dye pollutants in water. Researchers at Swansea University in Wales developed the composite material, which is made of tantalum nitride and tungsten oxide.

Chinese rare earth price drops further amid the price of terbium oxide, europium oxide and praseodymium oxide edges lower. Rare earth permanent magnet plate declines sharply following heavy rare earth single oxide listing price released by China Southern Rare Earth.