Avalon Advanced Materials Inc

Avalon Rare Metals Inc.(TSE:AVL) (NYSE-MKT: AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to report on the recently announced first round allocations of rare earth elements export quotas for 2014, to companies operating in China, from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT: AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to report that metallurgical process optimization work on its Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements ("REE") Project, Thor Lake, NWT (the "Nechalacho Project") is yielding improved flotation and hydrometallurgical recoveries, which are expected to beneficially impact project economics.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the release of its second comprehensive Sustainability Report entitled Align. Optimize. Innovate. (the "2013 Sustainability Report").

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed the filings of its Consolidated Financial Statements, Management's Discussion and Analysis, Annual Information Form and Annual Report on Form 40-F with the SEC for its fiscal year ended August 31, 2013.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT: AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a share purchase agreement (the "Purchase Agreement") with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC ("LPC") pursuant to which the Company may sell up to US$30,000,000 worth of common shares in the capital of the Company

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) ("Avalon") is pleased to announce the launch of Rare Metals Matter ("RMM"), a new website that will describe and discuss advances in rare metals material science and applications. This new site, with its collection of articles being updated weekly, will feature technical information on the underlying rare metal properties and qualities that make many of today's (and tomorrow's) new technologies possible.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) ("Avalon") was represented at the 9th International Rare Earths Conference on November 12-14, 2013 by President and CEO, Don Bubar, and Vice President, Marketing, Pierre Neatby. The Hong Kong conference has been the largest, and arguably the best, rare earth conference year in and year out. A wide cross section of producers, junior mining companies and more importantly, consumers, were represented.

The Assistant Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Canada, Marian Campbell Jarvis, announced the formation of the Canadian Rare Earth Elements Network (CREEN) during her keynote remarks to launch the REE Symposium at the 52nd Annual Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2013), held in Montreal, October 27-31, 2013 and chaired by Avalon Rare Metal Inc.'s (TSE:AVL) ("Avalon") Energy and Market Advisor, Ian London.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Report of Environmental Assessment ("EA") for the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements Project (the "Project") was approved on November 4, 2013 by the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, the Honorable Bernard Valcourt, on behalf of the Responsible Ministers (Environment Canada, Transport Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories).

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a sales agreement (the "Sales Agreement") with Cowen and Company, LLC ("Cowen"), pursuant to which the Company may, at its discretion and from time to time during the term of the Sales Agreement, sell, through Cowen, as agent and/or principal, such number of common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") as would result in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of up to US$25 million.