Rare World Metals Mint Blogosphere

On the Cusp: Bismuth and Scandium

Our bismuth and scandium ingots will be ready soon.  Bismuth is a rare industrial metal about twice as abundant in the Earth's crust as gold and ha...

Kitco Column about Us

We are very excited to be listed on the front page of kitco.com.  Mr. Bodo Albrecht did a very nice article about our little company and we are gra...

Thursday Morning with Bodo

I just spent a very pleasant part of my morning talking with Mr. Bodo Albrecht, author of the Tech Metals Insider column on KITCO News.  His column...

Yttrium and Erbium are now available

We are pleased to bring to market, for the first time we know of, investor grade one troy ounce ingots of yttrium and erbium.  These are our first ...

On the Cusp: Our First Rare Earth Metals

We plan to have our yttrium and erbium ingots ready by the end of this week.  These are our first two offerings from the series of rare earth metal...

Telluride Colorado, mining the streets for calaverite, and the Solyndra bankruptcy

Columbia, Colorado was renamed Telluride in 1887 after the tellurium containing gold and silver minerals called tellurides that were mined in Color...

The Other 3 PGMs, completing the 6-pack, and the late Eitan Cohen

We've recently added iridium to our family of rare precious and industrial metals and have a very limited supply given that production costs were a...

The Stuff of Meteorites

It has been postulated that much of the iridium in the earth's crust has arrived from outer space via meteors and asteroids, which are called meteo...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

We had a small, now resolved, issue with how to handle listing the purity of our hafnium ingots given that it is mined with and nearly impossible t...

Back to the Future

Our yttrium and erbium ingots are next up to be etched, starting tomorrow.  Both of these metals are used in YAG lasers, which is what our ingots a...

Germanium is now available

We are proud to bring our germanium ingots to market.  It is our purest ingot at 99.999%.  Worldwide annual production is about 120 tonnes compared...

On the Cusp: Ge, Hf, & Ir

We are very pleased to announce the imminent release of germanium, hafnium, and iridium.  We've had our share of roadblocks in bringing these to ma...