News & Features, Rare Earths, Resource News
China absent at rare-earths conference
By The Australian · February 22, 2012 · 9:53 am · Leave a Comment
Click here to read the whole story or read an excerpt below.
By Robin Bromby
IT seems an awful lot of fuss over a commodity for which annual production could fit in two Panamax vessels.
But it brought some of the big names in the North American and Australian rare-earths business to Sydney this week, people such as Gareth Hatch of Illinois’ Technology Metals Research and Dudley Kingsnorth of Curtin University whose every word is listened to intently.
