Beijing on October 21 morning news, according to reports, a former adviser to the United States Department of Defense said, in view of the rare earth resource utilization efficiency and improve the user to explore alternative sources, China may be difficult to maintain control over the global rare earths market.

2010, Chinese restrictions on rare earth supply and exports, leading to soaring prices of rare earth, rare earth mining company's share price rose sharply.

In many advanced technologies, lanthanum, dysprosium and other rare earth elements play an indispensable role. As of 2010, China controls 97 percent of global rare earth supplies.

However, since that time, rare earth prices began to decline, while the American company Molycorp, Australia Lynas Corporation shares also will decline.

University of Texas economist Eugene Hodes had during the 2010 to 2012 worked at the United States Department of Defense to study rare problem. He pointed out in a report, leading to more investment in rare earth prices higher than Chinese manufacturers in other countries harvest.

Molycorp has restarted California rare earth production, while Lynas Corporation in helping the Government of Japan, setting up factories in Malaysia.

Less than the main suppliers in China and other light rare earth lanthanum and praseodymium, dysprosium and europium and other heavy rare earths supply. However, China's export restrictions so that is not entirely valid, some small producers can still rare earth exports to other countries.

In addition, other countries also enhance the ability to handle rare. Rhodia has available from Molycorp and Lynas Corporation's supply of heavy rare earth ore extracted. If cost-effective, then the production of heavy rare earths Africa and China may increase.

In addition, the customer is still rare to find ways to reduce demand. For example, electric vehicles require a large amount of Dy as an additive to the art of the magnet, but can be significantly reduced in other areas, the use of dysprosium.

Currently, a joint venture by Hitachi Mitsubishi, Daido Steel (Daido Steel) and Molycorp tripartite joint venture is to create a low-dysprosium magnet factory.

Commercial areas can reduce the use of rare earth to make room for strategic purposes. Eugene • Hodes said the situation in the past several years indicates that the user is no need to panic.

He said: "The government's concerns about the industry as an opportunity to make money." Due to the global supply of rare earth nervousness subsided, rare earth prices have also suffered setbacks. With lanthanum oxide, for example, the price from 2011 all the way down to $ 16.26 per kilogram in 2014 low of $ 3.24 in the second quarter.

2012, Molycorp company reported losses of $ 450 million, and in 2013 suffered another $ 386 million in losses. However, if China is trying to tighten export volume of rare earth again, rare earth producers will inevitably gains decent profit.

 

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Jamaica News Agency News, October 9, Nippon Light Metal Holdings Ltd. (NLM) officially handed over to the Jamaica Bauxite Institute in dental investment into rare earth plant ownership (JBI).

The plant investment by Nippon Light Metal Company 600,000,000 teeth dollars (about 5.4 million U.S. dollars) to build, broke ground in February 2013, be completed early in 2014, after the completion of planned annual output 1500 tons of rare earth. But rare poor market conditions, the business cooperation was once suspended.

The next two years, Nippon Light Metal Company will continue to provide tooth extracted from bauxite residue RE

 

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According to 2014 consolidated appropriations bill, the U.S. Congress requires its Department of Energy (doe) to carry out "from coal and coal byproduct streams (such as fly ash, coal gangue and waste water) in the economic recovery of rare earth elements," the feasibility assessment and analysis, while report its findings, if it is determined feasible, the planning recovered from years of research and development programs of rare earth elements in coal and coal byproduct stream to obtain congressional funding.

In response, doe sent a request for information (rfi) before, its purpose is to find technical information about the recycling of rare earth elements from coal and coal by-products of the most promising. Candidate must be a high-performance technology, economically viable and environmentally friendly, suitable for large-scale testing or current current development stage, is expected to carry out a large-scale test in 2020 to 2025 to carry out the deployment.

doe had previously invested $ 120 million was established association of key materials laboratory, trying to seek to reduce dependence on Chinese rare earths, comprising: increasing domestic rare earth production; study of rare earth substitute materials; encourage reuse and recycling of rare earth, rare earth products are usually not included and then discarded after use.

China accounted for 36 percent of global rare earth reserves, but supplies 95% of global production. Previously, the EU also hopes more rare earth metals and precious metal recovery from waste electronic and electrical products.

 

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China is the world's largest rare earth metal and alloy producer and supplier countries, but in the technical aspects of the preparation of ultra-high purity rare earth metals are relatively backward.

To this end, "Twelve Five" period, 863 to set up the "ultra-high purity rare earth metals and alloys prepared by energy saving technology" topic in the field of new materials technology, led by the Beijing General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals bear. After several years of research, the subject made ​​a series of significant progress, and in late June this year, the Ministry of Science passed the acceptance of experts organized.

By preparing rare earth metals, integrated innovation purification technology and equipment, ultra-pure rare earth metal preparation key breakthrough technology, independent design and development of ultra-high-vacuum distillation furnace, cold crucible melting furnace area, 14 sets of special purification equipment, to develop complete sets of ultra-high purity rare earth metals engineering technology; prepared 13 kinds of ultra-pure rare earth metals, which thulium, erbium, ytterbium, dysprosium four kinds of absolute purity rare earth metals 99.993% -99.995%, and rhenium (RE), carbon (C ), nitrogen (N), oxygen (O), hydrogen (H) and other 60 kinds of impurity content of less than 50-70ppm. Independent research group developed new energy saving ten thousand amps and rare earth metal scale key cell preparation techniques, completely changed the existing cell structure, through the low slot piezoelectric intelligent control solution and the electrolysis process, to achieve power consumption down to six degree / kg or less, more than 45% reduction in energy consumption, reduce consumption of rare earth fluoride and fluorine-containing flue gas volume of about 50%. In addition, the group also discussed the preparation of low-temperature molten salt electrolysis price change of magnesium-lithium alloy and samarium Sm price change of aluminum-lithium alloy technology to carry out research and development projects and made significant progress, you can replace the current high energy consumption, high pollution and variable price magnesium alloy rare earth rare earth production technology, significantly reducing manufacturing costs samarium (Sm) and other rare earth elements price change, has achieved 100-ton scale applications in the production line.

Implementation of the "ultra-high purity rare earth metals and alloys prepared by energy saving technology," the subject, so that our ultra high purity rare earth in preparation technologies and products, through independent innovation breakthrough in the long-standing foreign technology blockade, enhance the quality of China's rare earth products and added value, effectively enhance the core competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises, and promote China's rare earth industry to green direction electrolysis growing.

 

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