Year in Review 2013: Rare Earths

• Autores: Kasia Patel
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 556, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Enero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A pilot project to investigate whether rare earths can be commercially extracted from Jamaica's red mud bauxite waste was launched by the island's government, following the discovery of high concentrations of rare earths in the red mud, a by-product of refining bauxite into alumina, by researchers from Japan's Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd.

    [Lynas] said it would hold back full-scale production of separated rare earths at its Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Malaysia in response to limited demand and falling prices. It added that it would implement a minimum price schedule for its rare earths products, effective 1 July 2013.

    China's Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) announced its second rare earths export quota for 2013, replicating the volume unveiled in the first quota at the end of last year. The 15,500-tonne quota for the six months to the end of December includes 13,821 tonnes light rare earths and 1,679 tonnes heavy rare earths, and brings the full-year total to 31,001 tonnes.