China’s top rare earths miner halts some output for a month

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Nanthakumar Victor Emmanuel, P.Eng Leave a comment

SHANGHAI | Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:04am EDT

Oct 23 (Reuters) – Inner Mongolia-based Baotou Steel Rare-Earth (Group) Hi-Tech Co, China’s top rare earths producer, will halt some of its smelting and separation operations for a month in an effort to stabilise slumping prices, it said on Tuesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/23/china-baotou-output-idUSL5E8LN88420121023