Industrial Minerals


World’s largest rare earth producer could face export ban

19 December 2011

by Mark Watts

China’s Baotou Steel left off government list of environmentally-approved exporters

Keywords: Baotou Steel, rare earths, rare earth prices, Inner Mongolia, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium

The world’s largest rare earth producer, China-based Baotou Steel, may be banned from exporting rare earths after failing to make a government list of environmentally-approved companies.

The company’s subsidiary Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth...