Price Briefing: Week 9 – rare earth price surge continues
By Mark Watts
Published: Thursday, 03 March 2011
Cerium oxide rises 10-fold year on year, while potash and graphite prices firm
The unprecedented surge in rare earth prices has continued
into March after the Chinese government announced it would
centralise control of mining in the southern province of
Jiangxi to prevent illegal mining.
To put these rare earth price hikes into perspective one only
has to look at the market for...