| As every rare earth investor knows, China holds the key to the prices of the metals used in modern high-tech applications such as smart phones, lasers, green technology and military hardware.
The country produces over 90 percent of rare earths, from valuable heavy rare earths like dysprosium to relatively low-value and not-so rare elements like cerium, meaning that China controls the prices. As we have reported frequently in these pages, 2013 has not been a good year for REE prices, which as a group, have fallen around 60 percent since reaching record highs in 2011...............................................Full Article: Source
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