Newsletter

Follow latestChina

NEWS IN HISTORY

NEWSLETTER

Weather Forecast

More Cities >>

News Sources

AFP AP BBC CNN The Economist Financial Times Guardian New York Times Reuters Daily Telegraph TIME Wall Street Journal Washington Post Xinhua

Rare earth

Hotspots on latest China news

Rare earth prices surge as China tightens grip

AFP 6/20/2011 8:48:03 AM

Prices of rare earths have skyrocketed this year as China moves to consolidate the sector in order to tighten its grip over the highly coveted minerals used in high-tech products, analysts said on Monday.

News in Pictures

Monday, June 20, 2011

AFP Rare earth prices surge as China tightens grip

6/20/2011 8:48:03 AM GMT
Prices of rare earths have skyrocketed this year as China moves to consolidate the sector in order to tighten its grip over the highly coveted minerals used in high-tech products, analysts said on Monday.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

BBC VIDEO: Rare earth: China's new gold rush

6/15/2011 5:21:00 AM GMT
What are rare earths, why are they so valuable and how did China end up taking control of 97% of the world's supply?

Wednesday, June 08, 2011

AFP China's Chinalco sets up rare earths processing firm

6/8/2011 2:15:01 AM GMT
Chinalco, China's largest alumina producer, has set up a company in the country's east that will separate highly profitable rare earths from crude ores, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Tuesday, June 07, 2011

BBC China in rare earth restructuring

6/7/2011 11:11:04 PM GMT

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Xinhua China's Inner Mongolia to restructure rare earth industry

6/2/2011 9:49:05 PM GMT
Authorities in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Friday ordered the restructuring of the region's rare earth industry in order to ensure that it will grow sustainable.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

AFP China strengthens grip over rare earths market

5/19/2011 10:28:03 PM GMT
China has further tightened its grip on the rare earths market, raising taxes on the minerals vital to high-tech industry and banning new projects to produce the metals via separation.

BBC China tightens grip on rare earth

5/19/2011 6:07:01 PM GMT
China expands export quotas of rare earth metals, further tightening its grip on the minerals used in a number of high-tech electronics.

Xinhua China issues guideline to promote healthy development of rare earth industry

5/19/2011 3:59:05 AM GMT
China's State Council, the cabinet, on Thursday issued a national guideline that aims to promote sustainable and healthy development of the country's rare earth industry.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

AFP China pays price for world's rare earths addiction

4/30/2011 10:17:03 PM GMT
Peasant farmer Wang Tao used to grow corn, potatoes and wheat within a stone's throw of a dumping ground for rare earths waste until toxic chemicals leaked into the water supply and poisoned his land.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Xinhua China to impose rare earth resource tax

3/24/2011 2:38:01 AM GMT
China will impose a tax on rare earth minerals starting April 1, according to a statement issued jointly by the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation to rare earth producers.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Reuters China rare earth prices explode as export volumes collapse

3/21/2011 11:31:04 PM GMT
China's exports of rare earth metals burst through the $100,000-per-tonne mark for the first time in February, up almost ninefold from a year before, while the volume of trade stayed far below historical averages.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Telegraph Rare earths: why China is cutting exports crucial to Western technologies

3/16/2011 4:15:04 AM GMT
The key to hundreds of modern technologies, from iPhones to smart-bombs, lies in the little-known rare earth metals, 95 per cent of which are mined by China. Its decision to slash exports has left the West scrabbling for alternative supplies

Tuesday, March 15, 2011