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Technology Metals Summit 2013 Presentations, Video Interviews and Special Thanks

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I would like to graciously thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for your participation in the 2nd Annual Technology Metals Summit, Renewable Energy -- the next industrial revolution. It was more than just another event for me; it was a gathering of friends and colleagues, and an affirmation of a promise for our industry's future prosperity. Speakers clearly articulated how the exciting new renewable energy technologies will drive growing demand for rare earths, graphite, lithium, vanadium and scandium, just to name a few...or as we call them -- Technology Metals. The above photo is a collection of…

Utah potash project on the way; Brazil’s big wind plans: Goldman backs Japanese green energy

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Goldman Sachs sees potash as the commodity for the next decade. In its latest report, Evolution of the super cycle: what’s changed and what may, Goldman places potash among the top 10 future themes in commodities. They say what we’ve been saying since Potashblog.com — one of the forerunners of ProEdgeWire — was started. As the Goldman analysts put it, “growing population, an increasing middle class and decreasing arable land, all lend themselves o increasing demand for potash”. That's it. In a nutshell. They equate potash with iron ore: like iron…

Orbite turns toxic waste into real value

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On May 16, Orbite Aluminae (‘Orbite’, TSX: ORT | OTCQX: EORBF) presented its quarterly results. Some of the highlights that were mentioned included the start of non-commercial operations of the High Purity Alumina (HPA) plant and the delivery of first commercial HPA samples with a purity of 99.99%, the exclusive worldwide agreement with Veolia, the issuance of patents in China and Russia. Orbite also announced that Mr. Glenn R. Kelly will join Orbite as the new Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), starting on May 21, 2013. Interestingly, all management will…

The Pulse: Potash to pick up; Setback for Brazil project: Will some countries “die”?

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On the back of news from Potash Corp of Saskatchewan that spot potash prices have gained up to $70/tonne in recent weeks, with deals in Southeast Asia being done at $470/tonne, comes a bank report that sees shipments of the fertilizer feedstock on the recovery track. Analyst Patricia Mohr at Toronto-based Scotiabank notes that spot prices were largely flat in April at around $405/tonne (against $452.50 last December) but look like picking up soon. Yet April, according to some press reports, saw Canada’s biggest monthly potash export volume since the 1990s.…

The Pulse: TUC beats path to China; Tin becoming more critical; Mitsui boosts hydro portfolio

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Mr Market seems to have decided that a jilted heavy rare earth explorer might be worth another look. After its battering last week (down 30.4% on Thursday, down a further 4% on Friday and no trading Monday), TUC Resources (ASX:TUC) bounced 13.2% after the Australian market opened Tuesday morning to hit A6c. No further announcement has been made since TUC reported on Thursday that Shandong Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources had shelved the memorandum-of-understanding that would have seen A$19 million invested in the junior’s projects which have good yttrium,…

Bangladesh textile factory disaster highlights importance of corporate sustainability

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The death of over 1000 people killed in a Dhaka factory collapse late April should come as no surprise to those who are familiar with Bangladesh’s poor labor standards. Bangladesh has become one of the most important textile and garment manufacturing centers in the world. However, the secret of Bangladesh’s textile sector boom has less to do with a tradition of quality, outstanding design and craftsmanship. No, the reason has far more, exclusively so, with the fact that major international garment producers can secure manufacturing at very low cost thanks to ‘world…

The Pulse: Rare Earth stocks come back to life; Europe still going nuclear; Niobium ready to roar

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Are we on the way back? That is, has the rare earths sector finally bottomed out? Too early to tell, but some stocks are again showing life and making gains, some in considerable percentage leaps. (Australian and Canadian share prices are in their respective currencies. Trading in dual listed markets, or over-the-counter, are excluded from the summary below.) The tone for Friday was set by Molycorp (NYSE:MCP), which saw its stock just after the New York open headed for a 22% rise after reporting a smaller than expected loss. (The details…

Tesla Motors: from ’0′ to Wall Street darling faster than a ‘Model S’

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Some of us - of whom yours truly happens to be an especially indicative example - enjoy driving cars, motorcycles and most other transportation emitting an appealing mechanical whine, requiring a certain skill in managing a manual gear shift and a clutch pedal. Even more of us want to make sure their vehicles can reach the intended destination without running out of ‘power’. Even for the more compromising majority of people who still affect this ‘primitive’ affliction, electric cars are a hard sale. The majority of electric cars is small and…

The Pulse: Ripples in potash sector; Turkey will need uranium; Japan’s offshore wind push

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Potash is the news with two developments  — a new controversy over Saskatchewan potash policy and India slicing its subsidies (again). Clearly, it may not be all plain sailing for the potash producers in the near future with London brokers Whitman Howard predicting subdued Indian demand and prices possibly going lower than the $400/tonne recently negotiated with Indian and Chinese customers. As of April 1, the Indian government cut its potash and phosphate subsidies. The hardest hit is muriate of potash, the dominant form imported by India; those subsidies have been…

The Pulse: The most expensive critical metal?; Japan REE recycling effort; An unlikely nuclear champion; U.S. potash flashback

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How about a metal product that commands up to $396,000 a tonne? That’s the top of the range for high-purity alumina (HPA). About 7,500 tonnes is produced globally each year. Even at the bottom of the range the price is impressive at $141,000 a tonne. As explained by one of the hopeful new entrants, Australian Minerals & Mining Group (ASX:AKA), HPA is widely used in filters for magnetic media to boost thermal conductivity, in composite resins and ceramic parts and substrates used in electronic components and semi-conductor manufacturing equipment. Demand is…

Japan ready to restart Reactors: Debunking ‘Fukushima’ and the rare earths Potential

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Two years have passed since the earthquake and tsunami that have devastated Japan, the most violent ever recorded in Japan. Although some 20,000 people were killed by the resulting crashes, explosions, fires and gas leaks, whenever the world remembers this major disaster, the media and the public focus on the radiological hazard posed by nuclear power plants, leaving objectivity and clarity to be desired. Upon closer inspection, the real wonder is the high level of safety that was demonstrated by Japan’s reactors when considering the most relevant technical aspects of the…
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Germany Should Cut Tax on Energy to Help Transition, BayWa Says

May 24, 2013 (Source: Businessweek) -- Germany should cut value-added tax levied on energy consumption to help cut household bills as the nation transitions to wind and solar generation from fossil fuels and nuclear, according to BayWa AG. (BYW6) Reducing VAT to 7 percent from 19 percent would protect consumers, especially the poorest, until more wind farms and solar plants…

S. Africa to Build Wind Farm in Search for Clean Energy

May 24, 2013 (Source: Energy Tribune) -- In a further move in developing clean energy, South Africa will build a wind farm which will generate up to 100 MW of power, it was announced recently. The 2.4-billion-rand (258-million-US-dollar) project will be undertaken by Eskom, the state-own electricity utility, according to the Government Communication and Information System. Eskom has got the…

Samruk-Energy Wins Wind-Power Loan From Kazakh Development Bank

May 24, 2013 (Source: Businessweek) -- Samruk-Energy JSC (ENRG), a power company in Kazakhstan, won a 14.2 billion-tenge ($94 million) loan from the Eurasian Development Bank to build the nation’s first large-scale wind farm. Construction of the $118 million plant in the Akmola province in north-central Kazakhstan will start in July, with first output due in December next year, Yulia…

Chinese solar firms reject EU trade action

May 23, 2013 (Source: Global Times) -- Chinese solar panel manufacturers expressed strong opposition Thursday to possible punitive import duties by the EU on Chinese solar panels and urged the EU to drop its trade protectionism to avoid harming the solar industrial chain. In a joint statement released Thursday, major Chinese solar panel makers Yingli Green Energy Holdings Co, Trina…

Electricity from thin air: Using nanotechnology to capture the energy around us

May 22, 2013 (Source: Nanowerk) -- Energy exists all around us — in the motion of a heartbeat, the fluorescent light in an office building, and even the flow of blood cells through the body. These individual units of energy are relatively small, but they are numerous. Dr. Zhong Lin Wang, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia…

Oil saving win-win drives Saudi solar power boom

May 22, 2013 (Source: Global Post) -- A slide in solar power costs and a surge in oil prices over the last few years has made solar power a win-win strategy for Saudi Arabia: saving billions of dollars of crude for export while making electricity at less than half the cost. Riyadh plans to install 41,000 megawatts (MW) of solar power…

Solar industry pushes for more use in Ga.

May 22, 2013 (Source: Businessweek) -- The solar industry in Georgia is pushing a power monopoly to expand its use of solar energy as it plans to meet the state's electricity needs over the next two decades. State utility regulators heard testimony Tuesday on the energy plans from Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power, which must submit new plans every three…

American Vanadium Vertically Integrates into an Energy Storage Company

May 22, 2013 --(Source: American Vanadium Corp.)-- American Vanadium Corp. (“American Vanadium”) (TSX.V: AVC) (OTCQX: AVCVF), announced it has entered into a master sales agreement with GILDEMEISTER energy solutions of Germany whereby American Vanadium will market and sell GILDEMEISTER’s CellCube vanadium redox flow batteries in North America.  The CellCube is a commercially available energy storage system, with over 50 systems installed…

Solar Power Windows Fast Approaching Commercial Production

May 17, 2013 (Source: Clean Technica) -- Commercial production of solar windows, using the patented SolarWindow spray-on solar power coating system, may be just around the corner. A recent announcement from US building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) developer New Energy Technologies Ltd. (which we’ve been following for years) has us feeling that the time may soon come. As per New Energy Technologies’ recent…

Mid Devon homes top solar panels table

May 17, 2013 (Source: BBC) -- Solar panels have been fitted to more homes in a part of Devon than anywhere else in England, Scotland and Wales, according to official statistics. About 8% of homes in Mid Devon have panels compared with about 1.4% in England. The figures showed 362,000 homes have installed solar panels in England, Scotland and Wales…

Cavan Work Program Underway on Quebec Graphite Properties

May 15, 2013 -- VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Source: Marketwired) -- CAVAN VENTURES INC. (TSX VENTURE:CVN) ("Cavan" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has started a prospecting and exploration work program on its five prospective graphite projects, acquired in April 2012, May 2012 and March 2013, and which are located in the Province of Quebec. The projects consist…
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