| From Earthtimes.org: The European Union is to put pressure on China and African nations over access to rare earth metals on which several key industries depend, the EU's commissioner for industry, Antonio Tajani, said Wednesday.
China's export restrictions on rare metals such as tungsten, lanthanum, cerium, neodymium, europium and yttrium - key for the manufacture of mobile phones, fibre optics, x-ray machines and lasers - has caused a spike in prices, causing howls of protests from business groups in the EU and in the United States........................................Full Article: Source
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