Rare earth elements mining investment: It is not all about China

María Victoria Riesgo García, Alicja Krzemień, Miguel Ángel Manzanedo del Campo, Mario Menéndez Álvarez and Malcolm Richard Gent

Resources Policy, 2017, vol. 53, issue C, 66-76

Abstract: China was in the past the main driver when analysing rare earth prices and their market, since it commercialised around the 90% of the world's supply. After a cut in its exports during 2010 and 2011, rare earth prices dramatically spiked. The world's reaction to this fact was the development of a huge amount of mining projects outside China, many of whom failed when prices fell again. Nevertheless, several of them survived.

Keywords: Rare earth elements; Mining project; Price forecasting; Preliminary economic assessment; Scoping study; Feasibility study (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2017.05.004

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