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Pentagon and Toyota seek to overcome China's rare earth strangehold

Marc Howe | November 08, 2012 | 1:31 am Asia Canada China Europe 

The US Department of Defense and Japanese automaker Toyota (NYSE:TM) have embarked upon simultaneous bids to overcome China's strangehold on rare earth metals via the development of North American supply sources. Bloomberg reports that both the Pentagon and Asia's largest...

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