Interview: Bill Radvak of American Vanadium (TSXV:AVC)

2011/08/02

President Obama likes vanadium; or rather, he likes to say the word vanadium. Last February Obama joked that “Vanadium redox fuel cells is one o... Read more »

What Makes a Mineral Critical?

In its Critical Materials Strategy, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) focused on materials used in four clean energy technologies: • Wind turbines... Read more »

Rare Earth Elements – the new rockstar?

2011/06/29

Welcome to the July edition of the Highgrade Review. This month’s issue is completely dedicated to rare earth elements and the companies listed on t... Read more »

5 Most Interesting Rare Earth Stocks – Part 1

If it weren’t for rare earth elements, a collection of seventeen chemical elements in the periodic table that are generally found together in or... Read more »

5 Most Interesting Rare Earth Stocks – Part 2

3. Rare Element Resources Ltd. (TSX:RES) Rare Element Resources is an early pioneer in their sector. The company has a 100% interest in the Bear Lodg... Read more »

Interview: James Kenny of Frontier Rare Earths (TSX:FRO)

The completion of an IPO earlier in late 2010 marked the arrival of a new late-stage player on the Canadian listed rare earths scene, Frontier Rare Ea... Read more »

Interview: Scott Moore of Dacha Strategic Metals (TSXV:DSM)

Dacha Strategic Metals is in the rare earth elements business but, interestingly enough, Dacha is not a mining company. And perhaps more interesting t... Read more »

Valuation of Rare Earth Stocks

From the research report entitled “Rare Earth – Our Top Picks” by analyst Luisa Moreno at Jacob Securities Inc. The rare earth sect... Read more »

Rare Earths under Chinese Control

China mines REEs from bastnasite ore in the provinces of Gansu and Sichuan. In Inner Mongolia REEs are obtained as a by-product from iron making. HREE... Read more »

Donald Ranta of Rare Element Resources (TSX:RES)

Rare Element Resources is an early pioneer in their sector. The company has a 100% interest in the Bear Lodge property in Wyoming, which, according t... Read more »

Is the bubble about to pop for Canadian rare earth stocks?

2011/05/12

Is rare earth metals mania another bubble that is about to pop, or a genuine shift in the supply demand curve? That question is the crux of a heated d... Read more »

Avalon Rare Metals hits 52 week high

2011/04/07

On December 21st, 2010,  Avalon announced it would list on the NYSE Amex exchange. The company’s shares rose more than 20 percent after the a... Read more »

Why should investors care about Alkali Metals?

2011/03/30

Welcome to the April edition of the Highgrade Review. This month's issue is completely dedicated to two Alkali Metals, known in the investment communi... Read more »

Five Lithium Stocks to Watch in 2011 – Part 1

Read the word lithium and it’s likely not too long before you are reading the word battery. Jon Hykawy, lithium analyst for Byron Capital Markets ec... Read more »

Five Lithium Stocks to Watch in 2011 – Part 2

3. Talison Lithium (TSX:TLH) With a market capitalization near half a billion dollars, Talison Lithium (Stock Profile – TSX:TLH & OTC:TLTHF)... Read more »

Interview: William Randall from Rodinia Lithium (TSXV:RM)

A tale of two projects. Toronto’s Rodinia Lithium (TSXV:RM), like its peers Talison and Lithium One, is developing lithium projects in two radically... Read more »

Interview: Patrick Highsmith from Lithium One (TSXV:LI)

Other people’s money. Not only does Lithium One (TSXV:LI) have what might be one of the purest sources of lithium in the world; the company recently... Read more »

Platinum; rare, expensive and green

2011/03/28

Platinum, among the rarest and costliest of metals, is also one of the most green. Platinum is so rare that all of the metal ever mined would fill a r... Read more »

Ucore: What’s in a name?

2011/03/09

What’s in a name? A lot, apparently. When Ucore Uranium last summer changed its name to Ucore Rare Metals (TSXV:UCU) shares of the company were ... Read more »

Great Western Minerals on top of Rare Opportunity

2011/03/06

A cell phone the size of a shoe. A laptop that weighs more than a truck tire. If it weren’t for rare earth metals, a collection of seventeen che... Read more »