China Cuts Off World's Access to Rare Earths to Inflate Prices
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- Published on Friday, 08 March 2013 08:23
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China may only have 30 percent of the rare earths in the world, but they essentially have a monopoly--which the rest of the world has been tirelessly trying to work around. (To wit: Japan looks to Vietnam, the U.S. looks to California and Missouri, everyone looks under the sea.) In a slightly devilish business move, China sought to tighten their grip and raise prices by eliminating all sales to its major buyers, the U.S., Japan, and Europe, for one month.
During the sales freeze, China is also consolidating its various rare earths businesses and buying more rare earths. At the moment, about 60 percent of the country's rare earths supply is controlled by a single company, called Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth. That company is artificially created and listed as a state-owned company, as China has already forced some 35 local companies to either absorb into Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth, or fade away.
Analysts, according to the AP, think the plan will probably work; rare earths prices have been sliding downward lately, a trend China would certainly like to reverse, and it'll also give the country an opportunity to work on its locally-produced rare earths magnet industry--a much more profitable enterprise than simply selling raw materials. Of course, it's not going to do much to discourage, you know, every other country on the planet from trying to find an alternative to buying rare earths from China.
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Fujian Issued Rare Earth Mandatory Poduction Plan
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 17:24
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Fujian Provincial Economic and Trade Commission requires these related managing departments to check the implementation of the mandatory production plans on a monthly basis, and the producers should organize the production according to the plan; intensify the monitoring work; establish and improve the production and sales ledger; timely submit the statistical reports about the production. They will force those enterprises of unplanned and overplanned production into suspension; trace mineral sources towards the smelting enterprises and those rare earth enterprises of illegal production, acquisition and sales will be punished according to law.
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Xinfeng Rare Earth Separation Project
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 15:32
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The key construction project in Shaoguan City --- the Xinfeng rare earth separation project of the Zhongse Southern Rare Earth to process 7,000 tons of rare earth per year, has passed the assessment of the international consulting firm and the Ministry of Environmental Protection Department and entered the land pre-trial and social stability maintenance risk assessment stage.
Early at the beginning of the workday of this year, Xinfeng county has organized a theory-learning group and invited Tu Ganhua, the deputy general manager of the Xinfeng Corp., Zhongse Southern Rare Earth and rare earth expert, to carry out the "understanding of rare earth seminars and collectively learned Rare Earthindustrial development-related knowledge and complicity of rare earth industry development plan. Nearly 300 people including the county authority and the principal leaders of the towns (street).
Mr. Tu firstly introduced the latest news about the city's key construction projects, that is the rare earth product of processing 7.000 tons of rare earth of Xinfeng Corp. Subsequently, he explained in detail the basic knowledge of the rare earth elements, and carried out the analysis of the situation of China's rare earth resources, introduced rare earth products' wide range of applications and discussed with the participants on how to develop, use and protect the local rare earth resources in Xinfen, so as to cultivate feature industry and accelerate the development of the economy.
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Honda Extracts Rare Earth Metals to Make New Batteries
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 16:17
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Honda developed a new method, which is extracting rare earth metals from the waste batteries and other products for recycling and manufacturing new batteries again.
There is no doubt that electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles are cleaner cars. Compared to fuel vehicles, they emit lower, even zero exhaust gas.
Whether grid charging emits greenhouse gas depends on the source, but the battery itself is also a problem. In addition to the greenhouse gas, mining rare earth metals also produce pollution.
Recycling can reduce the demand for raw materials extraction, such as aluminum, whose recycling utilization rate of 100%. Compared with mining aluminum ore, recycling consumes less time and energy, and lowers greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.
Honda revealed they can extract more than 80% of the rare earth metal from those used batteries to make new electrodes of new batteries. In this way, The demand for new materials will be reduced to below 20%.
Later, Honda plans to expand the recycling project to other rare earth sources, including old batteries from electric motorcycles as well as scrap metal recycle bins.
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Rare Earth Metals Outlook
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- Published on Thursday, 07 March 2013 14:35
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In recent years, rare earth products has been in oversupply situation, and there even appeared the price war, which not only led to some product prices falling more than 40%, caused a great deal of pressure on profit margins for products, and forced many of the poor performed corporation into bankruptcy, even if most of the existing enterprises are operated under a very low profit.
According to the analysis of the business communications company in the United States, it seems that the situation reached its lowest point and there's an expectation of reversing this situation. Particularly with the growing of the demand of automobile, computer, consumer electronics products and mobile electronic devices, the application of rare earth, especially in the automobile exhaust catalysts, permanent magnets, and rechargeable batteries will continue to increase. In the next few years, the demand of Neodymium and cerium for permanent magnet and automobile exhaust catalytic converter will increase in a larger rate. In addition, Ni-MH batteries, medical devices, sensors, dental and surgical lasers will also demand for more rare earth. Magnetic refrigeration will be commercialized and Erbium-doped optical fibers will enter a new round of demand.
Therefore, the U.S. commercial communications company predicted that the global demand for rare earth in the next few years will grow at the speed of an annual 3.2 percent rate and reach about 90,000 to 100,000 tons. In that time, the world's rare earth output value will reach $ 2 billion.
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