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Lynas: Rare earth plant operational in Q3
Published:  Mar 10, 2011 7:20 PM
Updated: Mar 15, 2011 10:26 AM

An Australian mining company said Thursday it plans to finish building a huge rare earths processing plant in Malaysia late this year, in a possible challenge to China's stranglehold on the metals.

The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Kuantan is scheduled to begin producing rare earths, which are indispensable in making many high-tech products, in the third quarter of 2011, a Lynas spokeswoman in Sydney told AFP .

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