19.02.2009 - The Chinese wizards seek out technology metals in the land of Oz
From Resourceinvestor.com: China has recently become very active in seeking out what at first impression look to be resources of just “base metals” in developed countries such as Australia and Canada and by aggressively buying into or enlarging existing positions in one of the world’s largest mining conglomerates, London and Melbourne based Rio Tinto plc I have been trying to sound an alarm for years about the critically short supply of technology metals, almost all of which are byproducts of base metal mining, or the mining of relatively abundant metals; even if some of them, such as titanium, are not as easily produced as the classical base metals..... Full Article: Source
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