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2011-10-21 China-Japan-Koreas

China to pause rare-earth output in effort to jack prices

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Thought prices were already high, why was there a drop in prices? Could read the rest of the article.

Posted by Angimp Glavise7223 2011-10-21 01:32|| 2011-10-21 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Couldn't

Posted by Angimp Glavise7223 2011-10-21 01:32|| 2011-10-21 01:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry about the incomplete story - it was complete when I filed it for posting on the 'Burg.
Alternate link to what I think is the same story.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-21 01:59|| 2011-10-21 01:59|| Front Page Top

#4 > The U.S. was once a major rare-earth producer and processor, but its supply role ended when the minerals became cheaper to import from China.

OR to put it another way... When environmentalists made it more expensive to extract in America...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-10-21 06:30|| 2011-10-21 06:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Can we have a surprise meter?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-21 06:49|| 2011-10-21 06:49|| Front Page Top

#6 OR to put it another way... When environmentalists made it more expensive to extract in America...

But I thought the primary reason was because American wages are too high?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-10-21 11:37|| 2011-10-21 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Chalk up another victory for outsourcing.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-10-21 13:44|| 2011-10-21 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 No.

Really? They would do that?

But I thought China's international communism belief system encouraged them to provide for all no matter what.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-10-21 15:23|| 2011-10-21 15:23|| Front Page Top

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