Avalon Advanced Materials Inc

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") has released its second 2013 corporate video update featuring President and CEO, Don Bubar.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has filed a preliminary base shelf prospectus (the "Prospectus") with the securities commissions in each of the provinces and territories of Canada, except Quebec, and a registration statement with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission which has not yet become effective.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE-MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a progress update on its summer work program at the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements Project site, Thor Lake, NWT (the "Project").

Highlights from the recent work include a potentially significant simplification of the Concentrator flowsheet, taking advantage of an improved flotation reagent scheme and alternative grinding technology. In addition, an optimized hydrometallurgical process has been identified to crack all the minerals in the flotation concentrate with potential to improve heavy rare earth ("HREE") recoveries to over 90% along with improved zirconium, tantalum and niobium recoveries.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE-MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board ("MVEIRB") has completed its Report of Environmental Assessment (the "EA Report") and has recommended approval of the Company's Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements Project, Thor Lake, Northwest Territories (the "Project").

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE-MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to report on a recent Rare Earths Forum hosted by the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, Germany. The Forum was organized by the Minister Counsellor of Commercial and Economic Affairs, along with other Senior Trade Commissioners and Embassy staff.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc. (TSE:AVL) (NYSE-MKT:AVL) ("Avalon" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has published a summary of its 2012 Corporate Sustainability Report, entitled Rooted in Sustainability (the "Sustainability Summary").

Mr. Brian Chandler, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer will be leaving the Company at the end of this month. Mr. Dave Marsh, FAusIMM (CP), Avalon's Senior Vice President, Metallurgy, will assume the responsibilities of Chief Operating Officer on an interim basis.

Avalon Rare Metals Inc.(TSE:AVL) (NYSE MKT:AVL) has released its first 2013 CEO video update in which President and CEO, Don Bubar, discusses the significance of the Company's recently announced comprehensive Feasibility Study on the Nechalacho Rare Earth Elements Project as well as other recent developments.

Avalon Rare Metals (TSE:AVL) has been invited to chair the organizing committee for the Rare Earth Symposium at the 52nd Annual Conference of Metallurgists (COM 2013), to be held in Montreal, October 27-31, 2013 (www.cim.org/com2013).