Minister King again shows how much she knows about her portfolio. threatening the USA that we would sell our rare earths to anyone but the USA. However Iluka is the world's second largest rare earth company and is planned to open a processing plant in WA in 2026/27. Our PM announcing a loan of $A165 million said it would have a no China clause.
Australian firms are within a few years of refining most of the rare minerals used in the world’s critical defence systems, electric vehicles and clean energy transition.
www.smh.com.au
Lynas is the world's third largest producer of rare earth products. currently a third of it's output goes to China but that might change as they are building a third processing factory in Texas after a large funding grant from the US government.
Of the undeveloped rare earth projects around the world Australian companies own 2 of them. The third largest is in greenland and the plans are to probably build a plant in the USA. The 5th largest deposit is in the USA and has already received significant funding to progress the development of a mine. Don't think our Government has a chance of making those companies not invest in the USA.