Australian junior explorer Eclipse Metals (EPM) has unveiled "highly anomalous" results for rare earths and other metals from its Greenland prospects.

Russia's conflict over Ukraine has risen the US concerns about the ferrotungsten (FeW) supply base. Sanctions against Russian financial institutions and the suspension of major maritime suppliers have deprived Russia of the opportunity to export ferrotungsten to the U.S., market participants said.

European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) recently announced that it will support Mkango Resources Ltd. in securing financing for the development of a rare earth separation plant in Puławy, Poland. The plant will receive rare earth carbonates from Mkango's Songwe Hill primary deposit of rare earth elements located in Malawi, Africa. The plant will also be able to process additional material from third-party suppliers and thus is expected to become a future European center for rare earth element separation.

With the help of a more powerful bulk pure tungsten, from the “Artificial Sun” to the orbital bombardment concept – our country claims a ‘big breakthrough’ with nuclear fusion reactor.

Tungsten oxide (WO_x) holds great potential for a wide range of biomedical and chemical applications. In a review, Anirudh Sharma from Shoolini University, India, focuses on research advances in doped tungsten oxide nanoparticles (NPs), particularly for applications in antibacterial and anticancer therapeutics, bioimaging, and biosensing.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

China’s tungsten concentrate, ammonium paratungstate (APT) and tungsten powder prices mainly keep stable in early March owing to soaring risk aversion in the market, and deals are limited concluded. 

China’s domestic rare earth prices showed a slight downward trend as a whole this week. In addition to the fact that downstream users are more afraid of heights, it is difficult to release transactions. The escalation of external geopolitical risks and the impact on the downstream industry of rare earths are also one of the factors that reduce the demand for rare earth raw materials.

Molybdenum market quotation in China: ferro molybdenum, molybdenum powder and oxide prices increased in the week ended on Friday, March 11, 2022. Affected by factors such as low stock of raw materials, increasing demand, rising international molybdenum prices and rising commodity prices, suppliers are generally optimistic. 

Norwest Minerals identifies a large 6 x 2 km lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite at Arunta West just days after discovering a significant rare earths anomaly nearby. These findings come from the ongoing analysis of 6550 multi-element soil samples covering 840 km² of the Arunta West project located on the WA/NS border.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has effectively taken back China Molybdenum Co., Ltd. (CMOC) from its ownership of the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine. A court ruling has left the Chinese company as the owner of one of the world's largest cobalt mines.