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Keys to Rare Earth Companies’ Success: Innovation, Cost Efficiency

Keys to Rare Earth Companies’ Success: Innovation, Cost Efficiency

Source: Zig Lambo of The Metals Report (1/22/13)

Geologist Alex Knox followed rare earths before they were Wall Street’s darlings, and continues to do so, having seen stormy weather in this industry before. Demand for rare earths remains; it’s just a question of who can supply them first—and at what cost? In this interview with The Metals Report, Knox tells investors what questions [...]

CA braces for more stormy weather

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Residents of Northern California are getting a bit of a respite after two major storms moved through the region, but a third big storm is on the way.

Showers and rain are in the forecast for Saturday, but forecasters say late Saturday and early Sunday a third storm – the biggest of the three – will bring more heavy rain to the area.

With the region soaked from [...]

RNC 2012: You Are On a Watch List

TheCopBlock
August 27, 2012

While Tampa experiences frequent rain throughout the year, rains began in earnest on the afternoon of Sunday, August 26th as Tropical Storm Isaac moved into the southern portion of the Gulf of Mexico. It is anticipated that the storm — while passing through the center of the gulf and not striking Tampa directly — will bring heavy rains and high winds late Monday and into Tuesday. The expected [...]

BREAKING NEWS: Pakistani passenger jet with 127 on board bursts into flames and crashes near Islamabad airport

A Pakistani passenger jet with 127 people on board has crashed in stormy weather a few miles away from Islamabad’s airport.

The Bhoja Air Boeing 737 jet was travelling from the country’s largest city, Karachi, to the Benazir Bhutto International Airport in the Pakistani capital when it burst into flames.

Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhar said civil aviation officials had told him it was unlikely anybody had survived.

It was unclear if any casualties [...]

Seattle: Biggest Snowstorm in Decades Begins… Up to 10-inches

By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist

The snow into Thursday could end up being one of Seattle’s biggest snowstorms on record.

The storm and its heavy snowfall have the potential to close passes in the Cascades, clog streets at sea level with tons of snow and slush and force flight delays and cancellations.

Near the coast, the snow will be heavy, wet and difficult to shovel. The combination of heavy, wet snow with gusty [...]

Bears, lions, wolves escape from exotic animal farm in Ohio… Schools closed, drivers told to stay in cars

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS and J. DAVID GOODMAN

7:38 a.m. | Updated The town of Zanesville, Ohio, was on lock down on Wednesday morning, with schools closed and drivers told to stay in their cars as police tracked dozens of wild animals who escaped from a nearby preserve.

The Columbus Dispatch reported that the man who ran the preserve — which included lions, tigers and bears, among other dangerous animals — had been found [...]

DAY 1: Atlantic Disturbance Crossing Florida

“The system… may behave a bit like a tropical storm with a brief period of gusty winds and localized flooding downpours.”

An area of disturbed weather in the Atlantic will bring heavy, gusty thunderstorms to part of the Florida Peninsula this afternoon and evening.

The feature, which started out as a cluster of thunderstorms over the Great Lakes this past weekend, blew off the mid-Atlantic coast Memorial Day [...]

Stormy weather on the Street. Stormy weather on the streets of Europe, as well. Could it be time to wake up?

by fishhook

European Markets were hit hard overnight. Our futures were hit overnight, as well, but not nearly as hard……..they are simply “little bit jumpy” so far. Since the futures markets are the “pride and joy” upon which the FED focuses, this shows one thing that some will find unbelievable – that there is vulnerability even with the FED trying to hold prices up in our stock market. This market has [...]