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Drilling & production - 14 September 2011

Molycorp invests in wind power

Molycorp, the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth oxides (REO) and the largest REO producer outside of China, is making a significant investment in Boulder Wind Power, which has designed a rare earth magnet powered wind turbine generator that can produce electricity as low as US$ 0.04 per kilowatt-hour.