China’s rare earth investors under increased scrutiny
SYDNEY – Australia’s economy minister increased scrutiny on Monday of China-linked investors in a critical minerals project that are refusing orders to sell, jeopardising the mine’s access to US funding. Northern Minerals has pitched its Browns Range mine as a “future cornerstone of non-China supply” of heavy rare earths dysprosium and terbium, both essential to... The post China’s rare earth investors under increased scrutiny appeared first on New Era .
SYDNEY – Australia’s economy minister increased scrutiny on Monday of China-linked investors in a critical minerals project that are refusing orders to sell, jeopardising the mine’s access to US funding.
Northern Minerals has pitched its Browns Range mine as a “future cornerstone of non-China supply” of heavy rare earths dysprosium and terbium, both essential to defence and digital technologies.
But a group of China-linked shareholders have defied government orders to sell.
