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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Hastings Rare Metals Ltd (ASX:HAS)

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Hastings Rare Metals

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Reported by FN Arena  |  Monday, June 25, 2012

Jack Lifton has had more than 50 years experience in the global automotive, heavy equipment, electrical, electronic, mining smelting and refining industries. His background includes sourcing, manufacturing and sales of platinum group metals, rare earth compounds and specialist ceramics used to make catalytic converters, oxygen sensors, batteries and fuel cells. Lifton is an expert in analysing supplies of a wide range of "minor metals", including the rare earths. This week Resource Investor interviewed Lifton on the current state of the global rare earth metal market.

The following is a summary of what Lifton had to say...

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newscolumnists/greg/...nas-and-hastings  

Monday, June 25, 2012

http://www.raremetalblog.com/2012/06/...c-mission-to-europe.html#more  

By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | April 13, 2012 9:45 AM EST

Rare earths neodymium and dysprosium, critical components needed to create high-performance permanent magnets to support certain technologies, have been found in the brink of supply in the coming years, according to a research by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Materials Systems Laboratory.

In what seems to be a testament of the global pandemonium for supply of rare earths, American rare earths producer Molycorp, Inc. on Tuesday reported it had entered into customer supply agreements representing 78 per cent of expected output from the Phase 1 expansion works at its Mountain Pass, California rare earth mine and oxide manufacturing facility.

The supply shortage, the research said, was ironically being induced by the rapid developments in the global green energy movement. The fast demand growth for high-performance permanent magnets needed to make batteries for hybrid and electric cars and motors for wind turbines will push demand for neodymium and dysprosium to soar at an extraordinary rate.

While there exists enough present supply to meet global demand, the study saw miners involved in rare earths will have a hard time scaling up extraction and refining the elements to match the lightning speed demand increase, more so that mining rare earths can bring up and yield massive environmental consequences.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Materials Systems Laboratory said requirement for dysprosium will jump [red][b]2,600 per cent[/b] [/red]in the next 25 years, while necessity for neodymium will rise by as much as 700 per cent for the same period.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/327503/20120413/rare-earths-china.htm  

Appendix 3B  

... zeigt, was Hastings bis heute bereits erreicht hat. Gruß, mad.

Hastings
Development is underway at Hastings' project near Halls Creek in northern WA, east of Derby, and exploration is ongoing. Assays completed in May confirmed the presence of high grade rare metals and heavy rare earths, including zirconium, niobium, tantalum, yttrium, hafnium, gallium, erbium, ytterbium and, importantly, dysprosium. Drilling commenced early this month.

The current resource is 22mt and an interim revised resource estimation is expected in July, followed by a final estimation in September. Also this month, Hastings announced the acquisition of a 60% stake in the Yangibana rare earth project in the Gascoyne region of WA, near the coast between Carnarvon and Dampier. Yangibana is a greenfield site with seven kilometres of under-explored strike length. Chip samples have returned high grades of REEs, including an extremely high proportion of neodymium (Nd; 60) which, like dysprosium, is expected to be in critical shortage in the near term.

Hastings has funded the Yangibana acquisition from cash and is also funding exploration activities at the original development from cash, of which it now has $3.4m on the balance sheet. Make no mistake however – there is a long row yet to hoe. Processing will be another matter altogether, and it took Lynas ten years to get to its current point. What can't be denied nevertheless is that the Lynas share price has rallied 300% in a year. A similar run has been experienced by Iluka.

As noted, Hastings is one of only four REE stocks listed on the ASX with a JORC-qualified resource. Other listed REE companies include Greenland Minerals & Energy ((GGG)), Northern Minerals ((NYU)), Peak Resources ((PEK)) and Kimberley Rare Earths ((KRE)), but while these companies have provided positive test results, they are yet to meet JORC compliance.

With Hastings Rare Metals currently trading at 28c, readers might find the following capitalsation table enticing:

Hastings will not be in a position to exploit the 2-3 year window of Chinese dominance which should see REE prices ex-China continue to come under upward, supply constraint pressure. But given demand for REEs, via demand for all the various twenty-first century applications of REEs, is unlikely to let up over a longer time frame, analysts see REE prices more likely to peak and plateau rather than peak and plummet.

The REE market thus continues to provide investment opportunity as long as investors choose intelligently among the claimants.

http://www.raremetalblog.com/2011/07/make-mine-rare.html  

 

 

http://www.chinaconsulatechicago.org/eng/xw/t959425.htm  

Hastings Rare Metals Limited:  176 $/kg im Juli 2012

http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/metrics-indices/...-projects-index/  

Alastair Metcalf, CEO of Hastings Rare Metals in Australia, said if Chinese manufacturing continues to grow, it is reasonable to assume China will need to import heavy rare earths.

http://www.china.org.cn/business/2012-08/22/content_26301840.htm  

normalerweise steigende Kurse bei kleinerem Vol. - fallende Kurse bei größerem Vol.
Heute mal umgekehrt +9,09% in Austr. bei knapp 360.000 gehandelten St.  

http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/...arket--34089.html  

http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/...o.do?by=asxCode&asxCode=HAS
Mal sehen, was rauskommt...  

Für mich sieht das aus wie chin. - aber ich hoffe es ist keins.  

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SUPPLYING RARE EARTHS FOR NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Hastings Rare Metals is a leading Australian rare earths company.  Rare earths are critical in the manufacture of a wide variety of new consumer and industrial technologies. The Hastings deposit contains a significant proportion (85%) of heavy rare earth oxides to total rare earth oxides.

SCOPING STUDY CONFIRMS STRONG BUSINESS CASE FOR HASTINGS HEAVY RARE EARTHS PROJECT
 
September 5th 2012

Hastings is pleased to announce that the Scoping Study undertaken by Jacobs Engineering Group confirms a strong business case for development of the Hastings heavy rare earths project. The Scoping Study incorporates the results of extensive testwork completed by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (‘ANSTO’).

HIGHLIGHTS
The study found a compelling economics with a base case net present value (‘NPV’) of A$1.9 billion, an IRR of 26% and payback of 3.6 years for the 100% owned Hastings Project.
Earnings of $223 million per annum represent a gross operating profit margin of 46%
Revenue is predominantly heavy rare earths, differentiating the project from others
Mine life of 25 years, based on the existing resource of 36.2 million tonnes.  With further drilling, the resource could be increased.
Ore to be processed through an on-site plant in Western Australia, without the need to transport intermediate products interstate or overseas.
Hastings Project will advance now to a pilot plant and feasibility study.
 
‘The project is forecast to produce substantial quantities of heavy rare earths, including Dysprosium and Yttrium that are forecast to be in strong demand and short supply’ –
Alastair Metcalf CEO

Please find attached the Hastings Scoping Study Announcement - September 2012
http://www.asx.com.au/asx/statistics/...isplay=pdf&idsId=01330363



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