[Ferro-Alloys.com]China may abandon its controversial export quota on rare earths and instead hike its resource tax on the highly sought after minerals, local media reported last Friday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Many rare earth businesses have reduced or halted production in Guangdong due to sluggish market demand, according to industrial observers.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China is now the source of 90 percent of the rare earths used in the world. China's preeminent position in rare earths exports is likely to change after a couple of mining operations in the United States and Australia begin to produce the m...

China's preeminent position in rare earths exports is likely to change after a couple of mining operations in the United States and Australia begin to produce the materials next year.

[ferro-alloys.com] China has set up a minimum production threshold for rare-earth producers for the first time, and current production capacity will be cut by 20 percent based on the new rule, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announce...

Molycorp (MCP), the largest rare-earth producer in the US, announced that it would scale up its rare-earth production, increasing its share of the global market from the current 4 percent to 30 percent,

South Korea’s state-owned commodities developer held talks in North Korea last year about a possible North-South project to develop North Korea’s rare-earth deposits, an official at the company said Monday.

JAPAN has found a large deposit of rare earth minerals in its Pacific seabed, enough to supply its hi-tech industries for more than 200 years, a scientist says.