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Article: Rare Earths - Suddenly Under the Microscope.
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- September 16, 2009
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LONDON, September 16 /PRNewswire/ -- - Fifth International Conference on Rare Earths
From Fox News to the The Times of London - everyone is talking about rare earths. For years these 15 elements with exotic names have been used in magnets, light bulbs, batteries, engineering ceramics and dozens of other applications. China has dominated production since the late 1990s but its share of consumption has also been growing and, to protect resources, export quotas and taxes have been introduced over the last five years. As quotas have decreased, and Chinese government control of rare earth production and trade has tightened the world has woken up to the fact that the ...