Avalon Advanced Materials Inc

Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. (TSE:AVL) (OTCMKTS:AVLNF) is pleased to announce the completion of a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment for its 100% owned Separation Rapids Lithium Project, Kenora, Ontario. The PEA was prepared under the oversight of Micon International Limited.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of flow-through common shares ("Flow-Through Shares") and non flow-through units ("Non Flow-Through Units") (collectively, the "Private Placement"), as described in the Company's news release of June 19, 2014.

On June 19, 2014, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources ("the Committee") released a document titled The Rare Earth Elements Industry in Canada - Summary of Evidence.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) is pleased to announce that the Company is planning to raise approximately $2,000,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement of up to 2,500,000 flow-through common shares at a price of $0.60 per Flow-Through Share and a non-brokered private placement of up to 1,000,000 non flow-through units priced at $0.48 per unit.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced registered direct offering with an institutional investor for gross proceeds of approximately US$4 million, as further described in the Company's news release of June 10, 2014.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement with an institutional investor pursuant to which the investor will purchase 9,237,875 units of the Company at a price of US$0.433 per unit (the "Offering").

In Avalon Rare Metal Inc.'s (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) recent news release, we announced that we are planning to move ahead with a work program on our East Kemptville tin-indium project in Nova Scotia. We suspect many of our followers may not be aware of what is happening in the tin market that makes East Kemptville an interesting opportunity to pursue in parallel with the Nechalacho Project.

Avalon Rare Metals (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) issued this Industry Bulletin, which provides commentary on the just released Report on Critical Raw Materials for the EU: Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials, in which some 20 raw materials are deemed fundamental to Europe's economy, essential for maintaining and improving quality of life, but where supply is somehow limited.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc (TSE:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL) is pleased to provide an update on recent progress on its two other advanced development projects: the Separation Rapids Lithium-Tantalum Project and the East Kemptville Tin-Indium Project and to announce a new staff appointment.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) is pleased to announce that it has received its 'Class A' Land Use Permit from the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board to start pre-construction work at the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements Project at Thor Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.