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Substition hurts rare earth demand

Michael Allan McCrae | October 02, 2011 | 6:42 pm Battery Metals Australia China Europe Rare Earth 

Subsitution is driving rare earth demand down, according to analyst Dudley Kingsnorth speaking at an industry conference in China. Kingsnorth is executive director of Industrial Minerals Company of Australia. Dudley told the Metal-Pages(TM) Minor Metals and Rare Earth Conference in...

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