Comments on: Why China Holds ‘Rare’ Cards In The Race To Go Green https://www.techmetalsresearch.net/why-china-holds-rare-cards-in-the-race-to-go-green/ Commentary & analysis on rare earths and other technology metals Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 By: jacques jedwab https://www.techmetalsresearch.net/why-china-holds-rare-cards-in-the-race-to-go-green/#comment-303 Tue, 25 May 2010 07:12:51 +0000 https://www.techmetalsresearch.net/?p=878#comment-303 The comment about REE found in byproducts of Ti-oxide industry suggests a way out: piles of refuses from the extraction of Zr from black sands (in Australia), mountains of phosphogypsum from the phosphoric acid production (in Florida), …, are awaiting. But they have never been considered as decent REE-ores, nor have the refuses of Al- extraction from bauxite been considered as a source of Ga. Same for In and Ge in refuses from Zn-extraction. Perhaps time to start a re-appraisal of 19-20th centuries mine dumps as decent ores of NCIC metals. These troublesome dumps are perhaps to be considered today and tomorrow as a blessing heritage of our past.

]]> By: john halliday https://www.techmetalsresearch.net/why-china-holds-rare-cards-in-the-race-to-go-green/#comment-302 Tue, 25 May 2010 03:50:15 +0000 https://www.techmetalsresearch.net/?p=878#comment-302 Hello Jack

I find it amusing that China seems to let the west know what it wants them to hear. Does anybody else not belive that they have not already started stockpiling as far back as seven years ago when they started reducing sales to the world. Would they not have started assesment on the clean up and modenizing or do they infact have the assesment finished . They have put the world on notice and have all the majors scrambelling to reproduce again. Now I find it rather hard to beleive that China would allow all the major countries to get back into full production and surrender all their market share. I beleive they will be back onboard earlier than suggests. They gave notice of this in Shanghai . All these guidelines being introduced had already been well thought through.

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