Industrial Minerals


Rare earth shortage projected

23 March 2010

by Mark Watts

Roskill: Over 60% more supply needed by 2014 to prevent shortages outside China

Keywords: Roskill, rare earths, neodymium, dysprosium, terbium

Global rare earth supply needs to increase to 205,000 tpa by 2014, about 64% higher that 2008 levels, to meet demand for key rare earth elements, according to the latest research from Roskill.

Roskill said that without an increase on this scale there could be a shortfall in the supply of neodymium, a rare earth element used for...