SHZ - bottom play?

LBSR found REE's at Hay Mountain....

http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&article=52420737&symbol=LBSR

Free report rare on earth metals: http://www.investingdaily.com/glp/36411/ree_stock_investing_rare_earth_stocks.html

MAT.v moving on Toyota news

Time to reload? Here’s Why Rare Earth Stocks Are Popping Now

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On Monday June 20, 2011, 12:18 pm

Simple answer: Molycorp (NYSE:MCP), a leading rare-earth mining company, had its outlooked bumped this morning by JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) analysts. Currently trading at $53.35, JP set a new price tag for the stock of $107. Morgan also upped estimates of Molycorp’s quarterly EPS to reflect substantial increases in rare earth materials prices. Analysts at Pipper Jaffray also raised their outlook on the company this morning from Neutral to Overweight. MCP stock has taken very kindly to the news, trading up over 9% at last price check.

Here’s a look at how the news is making waves in the rare earth sector today:

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (AMEX:AVL) up 6.12%, Thompson-Creek Metals (NYSE:TC), up slightly at .43%, up on gains of .83%, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSE:FCX) down .43%, Polymet Mining Corp., (AMEX:PLM) also off 1.42%, and General Moly Inc. (AMEX:GMO), up over 2.6%.

SNEY has already started its upwards momentum again. Like a big coal train, once this thing starts it goes for weeks.

choo choo!

SNEY going to POP!
A PINK in production.
FINS coming out any day now.
Black sands full of REE's.
Good DD on the board.
GLTA!

Rare earth shortages and the glass industry,
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015304703_glassartists13m.html

Because buying PUC.V can be a very rewarding experience for any investor. I've already enjoyed a sizeable gain on my money...and am now looking forward to a second windfall of cash.

SRSR really moving...they have significant quantities of REE's....

(OT) A interesting video of some rare earth metals
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=848_1307409205

And why would I want to hold that one, instead of Lynas, Alkane and Arafura who all have real projects with real ore and a real plan to get product out on a recognizable timeline. Your company will have to do better than taking samples in some possible deposit that they have a 50% stake in.

Even if it was a real company, how long will it be before they can mine it process and sell it?

Hello everybody. I'm a new member of this board. Australia is going to become an important source of REES. Pancontinental Uranium PUCCF or PUC.V, holds a 50% stake in a big new REE discovery in the central part of Australia. The company had a huge run-up on November 1st 2010 from .19 to .79 settling back to .61 by end of day. Since then the company has been busy getting hundreds of samples from alluvial fans and very shallow bed rock. Important news on assay results will be released in the June-July 2011 time period.

Good Morning All, MMTE just announced another land LOI this am. In this PR we notice he uses the word International... that is a first.


Mammoth Energy Group Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MMTE), a lithium and alternative energy mining company, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary Compania Lithium Investments Limitada of Chile has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire six concessions for a total of 2471 acres (1000 hectares) of lithium concessions located in the Salar de laco in northeast Chile.
"The Salar de laco is approximately 10 miles from the border of Argentina and approximately fifty miles away from the Salar de Atacama, Chile's largest mined lithium reserve," said William Lieberman, President of Mammoth Energy Group. He added, "With the Salar de laco and Salar de Pujsa LOI's currently in place, we are continuing our acquisition hunt to become one of the largest international holders of Lithium concessions in Chile."

The Salar de laco has similar geology to the Salar de Atacama where lithium concentrations average between 500 to 750 ppm lithium. The company intends to begin pursuing Canadian National Institute 43-101 compliant geographical reports on all of its announced acquisitions and current projects in negotiation.

Lieberman added, "Past geological reports have been done on the Salar de laco and the company is currently studying the concentration levels, but in past testing lithium concentration levels have averaged between 9-20 mg/l of lithium."

Mammoth Energy Group's Compania Lithium Investments Limitada has already acquired an initial thirteen lithium concessions for a total of 8649 acres (3500 Hectares) in the southern section of the Salar de Maricunga basin located in the province of Copiapo, Chile. The company has signed letters of intent to acquire an addtional 7165 acres (2900 hectares) of lithium reserves. The company is currently in acquisition mode and Compania Lithium Investments Limitada was created to acquire, develop and explore lithium and mining assets in Chile on behalf of Mammoth Energy Group Inc.

About Mammoth Energy Group Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MMTE) www.mammothenergygroup.com

Mammoth Energy Group Inc. is focused on acquiring, developing and operating strategic mining energy reserves in locations throughout the world. With an ever changing shift to alternative energy and fuels Mammoth Energy Group will be prepared to be a leading energy supplier and operator. Mammoth Energy's goal is to become an important partner as the world's energy paradigm begins to change throughout the next decade and beyond.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and such Forward-Looking Statements are intended to be covered by the safe harbors created thereby. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All statements other than statements of historical fact in this announcement are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to the viability of the company's business plans, the effect of acquisitions on our profitability, the effectiveness, profitability, and the marketability of the Company's products; the Company's ability to protect its proprietary information; general economic and business conditions; the volatility of the company's operating results and financial condition; and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about the company and the industry. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent occurring events or circumstances, or to changes in its expectations, except as may be required by law. Although the company believes that the expectations expressed in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, management cannot assure the public that their expectations will turn out to be correct, and investors are cautioned that actual results may differ materially from the anticipated results.

Contact:

Mr. S. Ahshrup

Phone: (212) 613-5453

Email: info@mammothenergygroup.com

Web: www.mammothenergygroup.com

Mammoth Energy Group Inc MMTE up 450% ytd.. otcpink

Hello,
I hold a very heavy position in MMTE., a Lithium
Dev & Exploration company that has recently acquired 8600 acres
in Chile, the Salar de Maricunga a very rich Li source and very dry desert (this is perfect condition for the evaporation pools once Li is extracted.) Our CEO is a young phenomenon who has had a vision for this company since being voted into office in 2009.

William Lieberman has a strong mining background and long reaching arms. His history is available on www.mammothenergygroup.com.
The CEO plans to be 'the largest acquisition land holder by total acreage in Chile'. Original plan was for 31,000 acres and now it is believed to be in excess of that. His other interests are in Argentina and Bolivia. William has long standing relationships in S.A. and speaks fluent Spanish. He was voted into the company as a unscrupulous party was being removed. In the act of retiring said party's shares it became necessary for William to retire over 700M of his own shares which he and the secretary/treasure did. He has voluntarily reduced his shares to secure the future of the company. He draws no salary. Their has been no dilution, confirmed as recently as one week ago. The CEO continues to state no r/s. The CEO is intent on uplisting to AMEX. Longs believe there will be a merger and possible buyback. This is a crucial week in Mammoth's history. The land acquisition PR was announced May 26th and we have been told to expect several more PR's by end of June.

*The share structure is 5,000,000,000
*Additional 10,000,000,000 shares have been introduced as required by covenant designs.
*Lithium rich acreage in Chile is valued at 10,000.00 to 30,000.00 per acre. With 31,000 acres x 15,000(mid-line range)=465,000,000.
465,000,000 % 5,000,000,000 = .093
* With the current acreage of 8600 x 15,000.00 = 129,000,000 % 5,000,000,000 = .0258

Legal Counsel
One of the best Lawyers in Chile Philippi, Yrarrazaval, Pilido & Brunner
and
Law Office of Corey J. Brinson, LLC
Currently serves as member of Hartford City Council
2010 Attorney Brinson was a candidate for CT Secretary of State


We welcome new members on the board and please do not hesitate to ask any questions or address any comments you may have. We have a IR person at the company who returns all calls and is passionate about the company. Best Wishes to all.
Dii Dii

RES:TSX.V Rare Element Resources has one of the largest Rare Earth Deposits in North America.

Al Korelin interviewed Director & CFO Mark Brown here: http://www.youtube.com/user/EvenKeelMedia#p/search/0/V4ZiHO4IyOo

China could become net rare earth importer by 2015 -Molycorp

Molycorp Inc
MCP.N
$48.62
-1.15-2.31%
03/09/2011
BEIJING, March 10 | Wed Mar 9, 2011 10:14pm EST
(Reuters) - China could become a net importer of rare earth metals by 2015 as it continues to restrict exports and curb illegal domestic production, U.S. producer Molycorp Inc (MCP.N) said.

A crackdown on illegal trade by China, the world's biggest producer, is expected to add to the strain on a global market already choking from the country's decision to slash export quotas for this year, the company's chief executive, Mark Smith, said during a conference call.

He said on Wednesday that about 10,000 tonnes of illegal Chinese exports reached the market in 2010, and that the volume would certainly fall this year.

"China is very serious about reducing the illegal exports from their country, and they are taking some fairly dramatic measures to make sure that that is coming true," Smith said, according to a transcript from ThomsonReuters Street Events.

China has launched a nationwide campaign against the illegal extraction and trading of rare earths, saying unregulated mining was causing untold damage to its environment.

"I expect that what we'll see is a very strong reduction again in 2011 from this illegal market activity."

China produces 97 percent of global rare earth supplies, giving it a stranglehold on a range of vital elements used in defence technologies, wind turbines as well as the batteries for electric vehicles, computers and mobile phones.

But Beijing, keen to guarantee domestic demand, earns more from rare-earth processing and gains a greater say in global pricing, cut export quotas 35 percent to 14,446 tonnes for the first half, and more reductions are expected in the future.

Molycorp said China's full-year export quotas were likely to be around 21 percent lower than last year.

China has also decided to establish a strategic rare earth stockpile.

"We have seen numbers out of China suggesting they want to build a stockpile of 30,000 tonnes and then add 5,000 tonnes a year, (but) we have seen the numbers mentioned as high as 200,000 tonnes of material," said Smith.

Stockpiling activity by China, South Korea and Japan "is applying pressure to a market that is currently experiencing some pretty severe supply and demand and not helping the uses of the materials at the present time," he said.

(Reporting by David Stanway, Editing by Ken Wills)

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American maganese sure has a nice deposit at artillery ridge
http://www.discoveryinvesting.com/uploads/Critical_Metals_Phoenix_Feb_18.pdf

Thanks for the ETF,I feel safer with a basket of rare earth stocks,I can get away from watching hourly and still be invested in this sector of mining stocks.

REMX: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=REMX&reco=1

Has anyone found a ETF that tracks only rare earth stocks?

GEM/ PMNHF .54 - HREE... if you think you missed the REE run! DD this one.

U308 and HREEs (the important REEs)this one has $1 written all over it and then you can ride freebies as far as this bubble takes us!

China Rare Earth Stocks Advance on Development Plan
By Bloomberg News - Feb 16, 2011 10:09 PM ET

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Rare-earth companies in China, the world’s biggest producer, rose in Shanghai and Shenzhen trading after the government announced plans to develop the industry.

Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co. rose as much as 8.9 percent to 80.20 yuan, the highest since Nov. 15, in Shanghai, trading at 77.18 yuan as of 10:13 a.m. local time. China Nonferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction Co. gained 2.3 percent to 32.48 yuan in Shenzhen. Rising Nonferrous Metals Share Co. surged as much as 8.9 percent to 75.35 yuan in Shanghai, trading at 72.87 yuan at 10:44 a.m.

Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday China will promote new technology in the industry and accelerate the pace of mergers and acquisitions among rare-earth producers under a five-year plan. The country controls more than 95 percent of the world’s supply of rare earths, a group of 17 chemically similar elements used in hybrid cars, iPods and weapons.

China will take “stricter” measures to control mining of rare earths and lift environmental standards, while continuing to cap production and exports with the quota system, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wen at a State Council meeting yesterday. China will encourage the development of large rare-earth companies, as well as controlling the scale of mines and boosting management, the China Securities Journal reported yesterday.

Lynas Corp., building a A$550 million ($552 million) rare earths project in Australia, advanced as much as 2.3 percent to A$1.965 today in Sydney, trading at A$1.955 as of 10:35 a.m. Shanghai time. Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest rare- earth deposit outside of China, gained 1.2 percent to $48.87 yesterday in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

China’s policy of slashing exports of the metals soured ties with major users including the U.S. and Japan, and caused prices to surge.

The government introduced its export quota system for rare earths in 1999. Last July, the country said it would slash exports 72 percent to meet domestic demand and preserve reserves. That was followed in December by a 35 percent cut in quotas to 14,446 tons for the first half of 2011.

--Helen Yuan and Jiang Jianguo. Editors: Alan Soughley, Indranil Ghosh

To contact the Bloomberg News staff on this story Helen Yuan in Shanghai at hyuan@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew Hobbs at ahobbs4@bloomberg.net.

4 Rare Earth Elements That Will Only Get More Important


BY MAGGIE KOERTH-BAKER

May 21, 2010 3:30 PM

Lithium is lionized. Silicon has a whole valley named after it. But what about the silent heroes of modern technology? Rare earth elements—a set of 17 related metals, mostly shunted off to a tacked-on lower line of the periodic table—are crucial to the way we live now; responsible for miniaturizing computers and headphones, powering hybrid cars and more. Increasingly important to technology, they're also playing a larger role in geopolitical maneuvering. Today, more than 95 percent of all rare earth elements come from China, while the United States produces at most 2 percent. That disparity makes some experts twitch. After all, what happens when Chinese industry needs so much of the rare earth elements mined in that country that there's nothing left to export?

With a bill before Congress aimed at restarting America's rare earth industry, and the Defense Department planning to add rare earths to its strategic stockpiles, these too often overlooked elements won't stay in the background much longer. The time has come to get better acquainted with the molecules that make our modern world run.

Lanthanum: Driving Excitement


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"Rare earth elements are neither rare, nor earth," says Stephen Castor, recently retired research geologist with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology. The name dates to the 18th and 19th centuries, when the elements were first isolated out of actually rare minerals. "Rare earth" stuck, but the elements themselves turned out to be pretty common, mixed in small concentrations into rock the world over.

Lanthanum, first discovered in 1893, is a great example of this. There's more lanthanum on this planet than silver or lead and it's the second most abundant rare earth element, but there weren't a lot of uses for it in the early days. When Castor worked with mining companies in the late 1970s and early '80s, lanthanum mostly went into stockpile, waiting for the day when it could be sold off for higher prices. That day has come.

Today, every Prius hybrid car on the road carries with it about 10 pounds of lanthanum. And yet, most Prius owners don't even know they use this rare earth element every day. That's because the car's battery is referred to as "nickel-metal hydride." The "metal" in question is lanthanum, but what can we say­, rare earth elements get no respect. A big breakthrough in battery technology, nickel-lanthanum hydride batteries pack more power into a smaller space—they're about twice as efficient as the standard lead-acid car battery.

"Toyota is the biggest car company in the world and the Prius is 8 percent of their manufacturing," Jack Lifton, an independent consultant and expert on rare earth elements, says. "Add to that other hybrid cars and the batteries used in small mopeds in China, and there's not enough lanthanum on the market today. Toyota is the first and only car company to invest in a rare earth mine."

Europium: Savior of the TV Generation


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Sir William Crookes, a 19th century British chemist, once wrote that, "rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations and haunt us in our very dreams." These weren't easy elements to isolate or to understand, and so there was a very long lag time between the discovery of the rare earths, and the discovery of practical uses for them.

It didn't help that individual rare earth elements don't occur by their lonesome—they travel in packs. To get one, you have to mine all of them. At first, industry didn't even bother to separate out individual rare earths, instead using them in a blended alloy called mischmetal. This provided the first commercial applications, says Karl Gschneidner, senior metallurgist at the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. In 1891, mischmetal became an ingredient in lamp mantles—devices that were hung above open flames, where they burned and produced a bright, white light you could see and work by.

Europium was the first isolated, high purity rare earth element to enter the public marketplace, in 1967, as a source of the color red in TV sets. There had been color TV before europium, but the color quality was weak. The sets relied on phosphors—substances that glow when struck with struck with electrons or other energized particles—to get their red, green and blue colors, and the early red phosphors couldn't produce a very bright color. Europium phosphors made the picture pop.

At the time, rare earth mining wasn't even a twinkle in China's eye. Up until the 1990s, most rare earth elements came from the United States, especially Mountain Pass, a mine in California near Los Angeles, which supplied most of the late 1960s europium demand. By 2003, Mountain Pass had closed and no rare earths were coming out of the United States at all. The problem, though, isn't supply. The U.S. still has plenty of rare earth elements left to mine—in Mountain Pass and elsewhere. Instead, those mines were simply driven out of business, undercut on price by Chinese companies that had lower labor costs, and also benefited from the fact that they were mining rare earth elements as a byproduct of profitable iron mining.

Today, europium is still used as a phosphor, but as cathode ray tube TVs go the way of the dodo, it's more likely to turn up in white LED-based lights, which could someday be an energy efficient replacement for both incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs. With this technology, white light is produced by mixing various colored LEDs and europium red happens to be an ingredient in turning out a high-quality, attractive shade of white.

Erbium: In the Pink


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The applications of erbium are both deeply important, and a little silly. For instance, adding erbium to glass is about the only way to create a stable pink shade. So erbium-doped glass pops up in novelty sunglasses and decorator vases. At the same time erbium keeps information flowing around the globe. Add a little erbium to the optical fibers that carry data in the form of light pulses, and those pulses get amplified. It can also be used as part of the gain medium that amplifies light in a laser. When you do this, you end up with a laser that can be used for dental surgery and skin treatments because it doesn't build up much heat in the human skin it's pointed at.

Erbium is a great example of how rare earth elements work in practical applications. You won't find very many places where a solid chunk of a single rare earth element is being used. Instead, they tend to be things that are added, in small doses, to composites and alloys. In that way, rare earth elements work a bit like vitamins, says Daniel Cordier, mineral commodity specialist with the United States Geological Survey. "Rare earths have really unique chemical and physical properties that allow them to interact with other elements and get results that neither element could get on its own," he says.

Neodymium: Little Giant


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Once upon a time, there was no such thing as a convenient way to carry your favorite tunes along on a jog. Rare earth elements changed all that. The key is magnets. Those things are everywhere, from hard drives to headphones to anything that incorporates a small electric motor—basically, if there's a component that needs to spin, magnets are probably involved. Producing a strong magnetic field used to require a big, heavy magnet and, thus, led to big, heavy pieces of technology.

Then, in the late '70s, Sony introduced the Walkman, a (relatively) small, (relatively) portable music player. Why were they able to shrink the form factor? Magnets. Specifically, magnets made from the rare earth element samarium, which were smaller and stronger than anything then available. Today, the samarium-based magnets have largely been replaced by magnets made with neodymium, which are even smaller and even stronger. We have these magnets to thank for the miniaturization of gadgetry. But they're also responsible for making necessarily chunky tech lighter and cheaper—like the turbines that turn wind into electricity, and the drills that search for oil deep below the surface of the Earth.

QSURD - Quest Rare Minerals Ltd. looks ready to move imo. Uplisting to AMEX expected soon.

Sumitomo, Mitsui Hold Rare-Earth Talks With Russia as China Limits Supply
By Ilya Arkhipov - Feb 11, 2011 8:25 AM ET

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Sumitomo Corp. and Mitsui & Co. are in talks to mine rare-earth deposits in Russia as the country seeks to compete with monopolist China, Yakutia Governor Yegor Borisov said.

“Mitsui and Sumitomo have expressed interest in producing niobium and scandium in Yakutia,” Borisov said in an interview today in the Ural Mountains city of Ufa, where he was attending a meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. “They know this is the future.” Sumitomo and Mitsui officials in Moscow and Tokyo declined to comment.

Prices for rare earths, a group of elements that are used in products ranging from electric cars and laptops to guided missiles and space satellites, have soared since July, when China said it would cut export quotas by more than 70 percent. China accounted for 97 percent of the rare-earth output in 2009 and more than half of consumption, U.S. government data show.

Yakutia, a region about the size of India with less than 1 million people, probably holds “many more” rare earth deposits than most analysts estimate, Borisov said, declining to be more specific. Russia holds the largest reserves after China, though production is minimal, according to U.S. government data. The world holds about 99 million metric tons of commercially viable rare earths, with China and Russia accounting for 36 and 19 percent, respectively, the Interior Department said in a report last year.

Global production of rare earths last year was about 124,000 tons, 10,000 tons less than output, a difference covered by stockpiles, the U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a Sept. 30 report. Demand will probably reach 180,000 tons next year, continuing to outstrip output.

With China continuing to restrict exports, Borisov said he’s in talks with the Federal Subsoil Agency in Moscow about starting auctions for deposits as early as 2014, rather than the current target of 2030. The agency’s press service declined to comment immediately.

“We’re reconsidering our position,” Borisov said. “We’re trying to determine how much we have now. We’re in the early stages.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Ilya Arkhipov in Moscow at iarkhipov@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Willy Morris at wmorris@bloomberg.net.

FYI -see date: Stans Energy Corp. Announces Initiation of JORC Resource Estimate for Kalesay Beryllium Deposit
Nov. 30, 2010 (Business Wire) -- Stans Energy Corp (TSX-V: RUU) (‘Stans’ or the ‘Company’) has retained Kazakhstan Mineral Company (KMC) to complete an Australian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) compliant Resource Estimate for its Kalesay Beryllium deposit, with an expected completion date of March, 2011

GEM.v/PMNH .55 - still lots of room to run IMO!

How is this board so dead! There is so much money being made here today... we have to jump start this board!

CLGL .10 - Good piece on REE's, also mentions Tellurium: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58417366

Don't forget CDNMF (CIN.V)

I think they have one of the best chances for growth in market cap because they have yet to release drill results from their Carbo property-

http://www.cdnintlminerals.com/s/Carbo.asp

Q1 2011 should be interesting... here is what I have for REEs:

STZYF(RUU), MTCEF(MAT), PMNHF(GEM), and CLGL!

Go REEs!!

REEs on fire and this board is dead?

CLGL .08 x .14 - New REE + next to First Solar (FSLR)mine. 5MM share Float!!!

California Gold Corp. Announces Closing of Its Private Placement and Decision To Move Forward With Its Acquisition of up to an Eighty Percent Interest in Mexivada's AuroTellurio Gold-Tellurium Property in Sonora, Mexico

Dec 28, 2010 3:01:00 AM

NEW YORK, Dec. 28, 2010 /CNW/ -- California Gold Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: CLGL; the "Company") is pleased to announce it has completed a closing of a private placement offering (the "Offering") pursuant to which the Company sold to various institutional and accredited investors and non-U.S. persons (collectively, the "Investors") 58,478,258 units of its securities (the "Units") for gross proceeds of $1,461,956.45, at an offering price of $0.025 per Unit. 36,478,258 of the Units consist of one share of the Company's common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Common Stock"), and a warrant to purchase one-half share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.125 per whole share (the "Warrants"). Another 22,000,000 of the Units each consist of one share of the Company's Series A convertible Preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Series A Preferred Stock"), and Warrants to purchase one half of one share of Common Stock. The Warrants will be exercisable from issuance until eighteen months after the closing of the Offering. The Company plans to apply the net proceeds of this closing towards the AuroTellurio Acquisition, certain outstanding accounts payable and working capital.

As previously reported, the Company signed a binding letter of intent (the "LOI") with Mexivada Mining Corp. ("Mexivada") to acquire up to an 80% interest in Mexivada's La Viuda and La Viuda-1 concessions comprising its AuroTellurio tellurium-gold-silver property south of the city of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico (the "AuroTellurio Acquisition"). The AuroTellurio project directly adjoins a tellurium project now in active development as a tellurium mine by First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), the multi-billion solar manufacturing firm.

The Company has completed its due diligence on the AuroTellurio property, and has determined to proceed with the AuroTellurio Acquisition. It expects a definitive purchase agreement and joint venture agreement to be negotiated and signed by the parties within a reasonable time period.

James Davidson, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated: "We are very excited about closing our private placement offering which now enables us to complete our agreement with Mexivada to acquire up to an 80% interest in Mexivada's AuroTellurio tellurium-gold-silver mining project in Mexico. The fact that First Solar, Inc. is now developing a directly adjacent tellurium mining project next to this property holds great promise for significant discovery by California Gold Corp.

"We see this joint venture project as uniquely suited for the times. The "rare-earth" tellurium has important uses in alternative energy, while gold and silver, we believe, are likely to continue to rally due to macroeconomic conditions. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell, 'the father of the Euro,' recently warned, 'We are living in the worst monetary instability in the last 3,000 years.' The prospect for precious metals has seldom been more promising."

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any of the foregoing or other securities of the Company. Any such offer may only be made by offering materials issued by the Company. The foregoing referenced securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), or any state securities laws and such securities may not be offered or sold within the United States or to or for the account or benefit of U.S. persons unless registered under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.

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Thanks- CIN.V Supposed to be releasing results in a couple of weeks from drilling at their Carbo property in B.C.-

It is right beside the Spectrum Mining property called Wicheeda-hoping for big numbers ...

Australian rare earth miners look to Europe
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By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press

(AP:THE HAGUE, Netherlands) Australian miners of rare earth metals said Wednesday they believe the recent freeze of sales from China to Japan will give their fledgling industry a boost.

Miners were using a rare earths conference in The Hague to discuss cooperation with Europe in the aftermath of the two-month ban on Chinese exports of the valuable metals to Japan's high-tech industries.

China produces more than 90 percent of the global output of rare earths, used in products ranging from cell phones to hybrid car batteries. Beijing imposed a ban in September on sales to resource-poor Japan after a diplomatic spat.

Richard Brescianini of Arafura Resources Ltd. said the crisis "heightened anxiety" about supply alternatives and led to an increase in interest in his company's mining plans.

A number of companies in North America _ notably Molycorp Inc. in the U.S. and Thompson Creek Metals Co. in Canada _ are also hurrying to open or reopen rare earth mines in response to a surge in the prices of many of the minerals.

Arafura is one of two Australian companies getting close to mining rare earths. Brescianini said the company's Nolans Bore mine north of the central city of Alice Springs will likely begin production in late 2013.

Lynas Corporation Ltd.'s executive chairman Nick Curtis said his company's Mount Weld mine in Western Australia's gold mining region is on track to begin production in 2011.

"We will produce a mixed suite of rare earths at 11,000 tons per annum this time next year and at 22,000 tons per annum about a year later," he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of the conference at the Dutch foreign ministry.

Curtis said a major supply deal his company signed last week with Japanese conglomerate Sojitz Corp. may have been helped by uncertainty about Chinese supply.

The deal gave Sojitz exclusive import rights for 9,000 tons a year of Lynas' rare earth metals. Sojitz also agreed to seek up to $250 million in funding from Japan to develop the project.

"We think that's part of the response of the Japanese to the vacuum which China has left in terms of the supply of rare earths to the non-China market," Curtis said. "We think that's positive."

Jaakko Kooroshy, a policy analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies which helped organize the conference, said it would help forge links between Europe and Australia.

"Europe is looking at diversifying its supply and for that Australia is important, but policy makers have not been dealing with this issue so far," he said, adding that the one-day event would get delegates thinking "how Europeans can help Australians develop resources, how Australians can help Europeans ensure security of supply."

Refining rare earth metals produces toxic waste, and relatively lax environmental regulations in China were one reason the country came to dominate production.

Brescianini said that is changing, and Australia's tough mining and environmental regulations would now give the nation a competitive advantage marketing its rare earths.

"It's a bit like the blood diamond situation ... suddenly it wasn't the right thing to be taking diamonds from particular organizations, particular countries," he said, referring to a backlash against diamonds mined in conflict zones. "Because of the use of rare earth elements in green technologies, people will like a nice clean supply chain."


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Big REE discussion this week here...

http://www.financialsense.com/financial-sense-newshour

KSM.V MOLYBDENUM!!!! gapper tomorrow....huge news in thursday´s conference


http://www.cmebc.com/3rdBrochure_Final_21Oct2010.pdf

RUU- I think investing in RUU is a good idea - they seem to have the permits in place to get mining quicker than any other rare earth company I have come across in my research lately-

-I own shares in a junior that is contiguous to GEM property called Ateba Resources Inc.-
Trades as ATR.C on the CNSX (Canadian National Stock Exchange)

Will be interesting to see if they have the similar geology to GEM as they have less shares outstanding-

Also waiting to see CIN drill results as they are drilling next door to the Wicheeda property in B.C. which is considered to be a very good deposit by rare earth expert Dr. Tony Mariano-

U.S. Defense Department Sees No Rare-Earths Crisis; May Aid U.S. Producers

By Gopal Ratnam -

The U.S. Defense Department has concluded that China’s monopoly on rare-earth materials, used in military hardware such as missile guidance and radar systems, poses no threat to national security, according to a person familiar with a year-long study by the Pentagon.

The report notes that rising prices and supply uncertainties are spurring private investment in new mining operations outside of China that will help meet American military needs, which require less than 5 percent of U.S. rare- earth consumption.

China now provides 97 percent of the world’s rare earths, a group of 17 metals that includes neodymium, samarium, and dysprosium.

The study, conducted by the Pentagon’s Office of Industrial Policy, raises the possibility that the Defense Department may help prospective U.S. providers such as Molycorp Inc., the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the report has not yet been released publicly.

Link to full article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-30/pentagon-sees-no-security-threat-from-rare-earths-may-aid-u-s-producers.html

Molycorp Says Surge in Rare-Earth Prices Is `Sustainable' on China Cuts
By Elisabeth Behrmann and Susan Li - Oct 28, 2010 2:45 AM ET

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Mark A. Smith, president and chief executive officer of Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, talks about demand for the minerals. Rare-earth prices have jumped after China, the source of more than 90 percent of worldwide supplies, cut its second-half export quota. Smith speaks from Denver, Colorado, with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television's "First Up." (Source: Bloomberg)

Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s, largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, said the surge in prices is sustainable because of production and export cuts by China, the world’s biggest supplier.

“I don’t believe that there is a bubble,” Mark A. Smith, president of the Greenwood Village, Colorado-based company, said in an interview with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television’s “First Up.” “These prices are absolutely sustainable and that’s really based upon the very simple facts of supply and demand.”

Prices of rare earths, used in the manufacture of disk drives and smart bombs, have climbed as much as sevenfold in the past six months as China in July reduced its second-half export quota for the minerals by 72 percent. Molycorp aims to restart a mine in California in the second half of next year and produce about 20,000 metric tons of rare earth oxides by the end of 2012.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, warned in April of “vulnerabilities” for the military because of the lack of domestic suppliers of rare-earth materials used in weapons systems. The Pentagon is studying how to secure future supplies, and its report is due to Congress this month.

Vietnam, which has emerged as a potential new source for Japanese companies including Toyota Motor Corp., won’t sell rare earths in raw form, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported, citing the Department of Geology and Minerals. Instead the country aims to export more valuable processed rare earths.

Radioactive

While the elements aren’t as rare in nature as the name implies, they are difficult to find in profitable concentrations, expensive for Western producers to extract and are often laced with radioactive elements.

China has come to dominate the market because it has been able to produce the elements more cheaply and with fewer environmental restrictions than its competitors.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on China to clarify its rare earth policy, following a meeting with her Japanese counterpart, Seiji Maehara, that touched on the subject in Hawaii yesterday. The “entire world” has to seek alternative supplies of the metals, she said.

China won’t use rare earths as a bargaining chip, Zhu Hongren, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said today at a briefing in Beijing. The Chinese government has said it is reducing exports as part of a drive to improve efficiency in the industry and reduce environmental damage caused by mining.

Strong Fundamentals

“The Chinese are only exporting 30,000 tons of material to the rest of the world right now and the rest of the world needs 50,000 tons of this material a year,” said Molycorp’s Smith. “We don’t see the fundamentals of this changing anytime in the near future. The demand is like I’ve never seen it in 25 years in this business.”

Lynas Corp., a rare earths developer based in Sydney, estimates the global rare-earth market this year at $7.8 billion, or about a week’s sales at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Still, China’s cutbacks have raised political tension because of the strategic importance of the metals used in Toyota’s Prius hybrid cars, Research in Motion Ltd. BlackBerrys, alternative energy generation and weapons.

The price of lanthanum oxide, used in hybrid batteries, has risen more than sixfold since second quarter to $50 a kilogram, according to Lynas Corp.’s website. Vehicles like the Prius contain about 10 kilograms of rare earths.

Alternatives

Japan’s Nidec Corp., the world’s biggest maker of motors for hard-disk drives, will start making motors for industrial machinery that don’t need rare-earth metals to reduce reliance on the materials, the Nikkei newspaper reported today. Production of motors that don’t use permanent magnets and don’t require rare earth metals will start in 2012, it said.

Molycorp rose 9.6 percent to $38.56 in New York yesterday after the U.S. House of Representative’s Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon said he will seek to pass a measure that would boost rare-earth mining. The stock has tripled since the company raised $394 million in a July initial public offering.

Rare earths, a group of 17 metals including neodymium, lanthanum, cerium and europium, have industrial and national- security uses, such as in petroleum refining, fiber-optic transmission, computer disk drives, and military radar and missile-guidance systems.

To contact the reporter on this story: Elisabeth Behrmann in Sydney at ebehrmann1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew Hobbs at ahobbs4@bloomberg.net

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new one. Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals :REMX
Rare earth ETF begins trading
11:12a ET October 28, 2010 (MarketWatch)
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Van Eck Global on Thursday launched Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF on the NYSE Arca exchange. It is the first U.S.-listed exchange-traded fund that invests in companies "primarily engaged in the producing, refining, and recycling rare earth/strategic metals," the asset manager said in a press release.

ree buyouts on the horizon. ree miners need cash to develop resource mines and big mining companies have cash and need ree resources. look for big miners like bhp to enter the ree arena and drive prices up more.

AREM is today's huge % winner in the rare-earth universe

take a look my friend...my new pick SRD.V

Strait Gold Corporation...news coming and float gone...undervalued..OS is small..i am from Peru and can tell you they will find tons of copper-gold


TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 19, 2010) - Strait Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:SRD - News) is pleased to report that a program of diamond drilling has commenced at its Alicia copper-gold project in southern Peru.

The Company plans to complete 1,000-1,200 metres of drilling as the second phase of an exploration program that began in June, 2010. Results from Phase 1 indicate geophysical anomalies associated with surface skarn zones that returned values up to 13% copper and up to 3.55 grams per tonne (g/t) gold. Drilling will test several of these skarn zones and associated geophysical anomalies.

Phase 1 exploration at Alicia consisted of a program of community engagement, detailed mapping of the outcropping skarn zones, a grid sampling program and geophysical surveys. Approval to conduct drilling in Phase 2 of the exploration program required reaching a surface-rights agreement, preparing baseline archaelogical and environmental studies, and obtaining water-use approval, all of which have been achieved.

Sampling of the more than nine skarn zones largely indicated elevated copper, gold and silver values with a range of 0.03-13.05% Cu, 0.005 to 3.55 g/t gold and 0.3-100.0 g/t silver.

The Alicia Project is located within the emerging Andahuaylas-Yauri belt of mineralization that stretches across much of southern Peru. This belt hosts numerous porphyry and skarn deposits, including Xstrata's Las Bambas deposit with indicated and inferred resources of 1.1 billion tonnes grading 0.77% copper and Antares Minerals' Haquira deposit with a measured and indicated resource of approximately 561 million tonnes grading 0.49% copper and 0.33 g/t gold, both located within approximately 40 km of Alicia.

Quality Control and Quality Assurance

Samples consist of rock chips collected from outcrop either in a channel typically two to three metres in length or in a panel covering four to six square metres. Samples were transported to ALS Chemex preparation facilities in Arequipa by Strait Gold personnel. Following sample preparation, samples were couriered to ALS Chemex facilities in Lima, Peru, for analysis. ALS Chemex is an ISO 9001:2000 registered laboratory. Samples were analyzed for gold by fire assay followed by atomic absorption spectroscopic (AAS) finish and by gravimetric finish for samples exceeding the upper limit of analysis (over limit). Silver, copper, lead and zinc, together with 30 other elements, were assayed by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) following aqua regia dissolution. Over-limit silver (greater than 100 ppm), and copper (greater than 10,000 ppm) samples were re-assayed by AAS. Strait Gold routinely carries out a program of quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) that includes insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates into the sample stream to verify results prior to dissemination.

All of the company's exploration programs are prepared by, or prepared under the supervision of, Dr. Roger Moss, P.Geo., who serves as the Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, and is a Director of the Company. Dr. Moss has reviewed the technical content of this news release.

About Strait Gold Corporation:

Strait Gold Corporation is a Canadian mineral exploration company active solely in Peru and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange. It has an option to earn a 100% interest in the Alicia copper-gold property in Cusco Department approximately 500 km southeast of Lima, the capital of Peru, and holds a 100% interest in both the Letra Rumi South copper-silver property and the Culebrilla gold-silver property, both in Ancash Department approximately 250 km north of Lima. To learn more about Strait Gold, please visit our website at www.straitgold.com.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Bought 3 REE's on open: GEM.v/PMNHF, MAT.v/MTCEF, and RUU.v/STZYF.

Sick of watch all these go up with out me... I feel like I am chasing here but... I think folks are just understanding this:


Jim Sinclair’s Commentary
The biggest news today is buried. It is not the .25 basis point rise in China rates. It is China embargoing the US on strategic material.
The Strategic Material War I wrote about in 1983 has been declared today. The United States’ strategic metals and materials stockpile is a joke. It is made up of old science, the wrong things, and is most likely packed and stored incorrectly, therein leading to its downgrade over time.
These items are key ingredients in all advanced weapons systems and high tech devices.
China did the same to Japan over a disagreement. In one day Japan folded.
I imagine there is no one in Washington that even knows what a rare earth item is. They are probably wondering why China would embargo worthless dirt.

http://jsmineset.com/

Funny this board is so dead... may mean there is still time to buy REEs.