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Friday, January 21, 2011
ARTICLE: The Mines and Minds Are in China
If you look at China’s rare earth industry, you will see that it has undergone a major transformation. China, which once focused on exporting rare earths in their raw forms, has shifted its end goal from production to innovation. In the 1970s, China was just exporting rare earth mineral concentrates. By the 1990s, it began producing magnets, phosphors and polishing powders. Now, it is making finished products like electric motors, batteries, LCDs, mobile phones and so on.
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