, , Free Daily Updates : Home RareMetalStock RareMetalTV RareMetalAudio RareMetalApps Blog News Media Team Events RareMetalStore Wednesday , August 31, 2011 Rare Earth Metals Provides Update on Drilling from Lavergne-Springer Project , Near Sudbury , ON August 31, 2011 Source : Marketwire Rare Earth Metals Inc . Rare Earth Metals RA or the Company TSX VENTURE:RA OTCQX:RAREF PINK SHEETS:RAREF is pleased to report diamond drill sample results from the second drill hole on the West Lavergne REE Mineralized Zone at the Lavergne-Springer property . The property is located 8 km north of the Trans-Canada Highway , in Springer Township , immediately north of the Town of Sturgeon Falls and 80 km east of Sudbury , Ontario . The results from DDH SL-11-02 include 1.24 TREO over 135.2 meters within aFree Daily Updates : Home RareMetalStock RareMetalTV RareMetalAudio RareMetalApps Blog News Media Team Events RareMetalStore Wednesday , August 31, 2011 India's government plans to step up domestic REE production August 31, 2011, New Dehli Source : Economic Times India is planning to step up indigenous production of rare earth minerals , a bit of which can be found in everything high tech from smart phones and laptops to hybrid vehicles and wind turbines . 0160 A government panel is currently working on a strategy paper to give impetus to exploration and discovery of rare earth and energy critical elements used in renewable energy , officials from the mines ministry told ET . The paper could lead to a policy on such minerals . India does not have a policy on rare earth minerals so far .: Free Daily Updates : Home RareMetalStock RareMetalTV RareMetalAudio RareMetalApps Blog News Media Team Events RareMetalStore Tuesday , August 30, 2011 American Elements' President : US strategic metals reserve needed now Hindsight would be priceless if it could be transmuted into foresight a would-be alchemist’s lament when markets turn against him Two years ago , neodymium metal sold for 35-45 per pound . Today it is 900 per pound and climbing . All rare earth metals have risen similarly , said Michael Silver , president and chairman of the board of American Elements , a manufacturer of engineered and advanced materials , including rare earth metals . Had America created a reserve 48 months ago , we would have experienced a windfall of epic proportions . Hmmm . That’s what I said toFree Daily Updates : Home RareMetalStock RareMetalTV RareMetalAudio RareMetalApps Blog News Media Team Events RareMetalStore Tuesday , August 30, 2011 Neo Material Technologies expands its Gallium business August 30, 2011 Source : CNW Neo Material Technologies Inc . TSX : NEM the Company or Neo announced today that it has acquired an 80 interest in Gallium Compounds , LLC Gallium Compounds and plans to expand the Gallium Compounds business of gallium tri-chloride production into South . Korea Gallium Compounds , based in Quapaw , Oklahoma is a recognized world leader in specialty value-added gallium products . Its primary business is the manufacturing of gallium tri-chloride , a critical material used in the production of light emitting diodes LEDs LEDs are used as indicator lamps inFree Daily Updates : Home RareMetalStock RareMetalTV RareMetalAudio RareMetalApps Blog News Media Team Events RareMetalStore Tuesday , August 30, 2011 Resources hunt fuels global mining August 30, 2011 Source : China Daily The US dominated the global mining mergers and acquisitions M As market in the first half , accounting for 18 percent of the total deal value , while China and Canada each accounted for 17 percent of global mining M A transactions , Wayne Jansen , global partner of KPMG in charge of the global mining industry , . said More than 75 percent of mining M A transactions by value took place in the copper , gold and coal sectors , he . said China is competing with global mining players for these metals , he said . Iron ore , a raw material for making steel , is China's