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      schrieb am 01.02.12 21:22:07
      Beitrag Nr. 2.108 ()
      http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/australia-lynas-ma…

      UPDATE 2-Malaysia approves temporary licence for Lynas rare earths plant

      Wed Feb 1, 2012 10:09am EST

      By Niluksi Koswanage

      KUALA LUMPUR Feb 1 (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities approved a temporary operating license for Australia's Lynas Corp.'s $200 million rare earths processing plant, a move seen as crucial to easing China's grip on the supply of minerals used in products from smart phones to hybrid cars.

      The approval by the country's Atomic Energy Licensing Board on Wednesday eases uncertainty for Lynas and investors after speculation that the licence could have been rejected in the face of opposition from political parties and residents near the plant ahead of national elections expected within months.

      "The temporary licence has been approved with conditions. If these conditions are not met, the temporary licence can be suspended or cancelled and subsequent applications for the licence will not be considered," the atomic licensing board and the Ministry of Science said in a joint statement.

      Malaysian government officials have said the final decision on the so-called pre-operating licence will be made by Prime Minister Najib Razak and his cabinet, but an opposition politician has already called for a judicial review
      .

      "I am disappointed, but I expected this move from the Malaysian government," said Fuziah Salleh, an opposition member of parliament for Kuantan in Pahang state where the plant is being built.

      She said opponents would file for a judicial review of the decision, especially to voice their concern that radioactive residue from the plant's operations could contaminate the environment.

      "The main issue is the permanent disposal facility, the government has asked for the waste to be shipped back to the source -- which is Mt Weld but Australia has said it will not take the waste back. So Malaysians are stuck with it at the expense of profits for Lynas."

      TERMS OF OPERATION

      The plant on Malaysia's east coast will process rare earths mined in Australia at Lynas' Mount Weld project with the company responsible for managing residue, including "returning waste to its original source if necessary," the statement said.

      The company would also have to submit a plan for a permanent disposal facility for residue within 10 months and pay $50 million to the Malaysian government as a financial guarantee.

      The atomic board would also have the right to select an independent consultant to assess Lynas' adherence to the conditions, the statement said.

      Lynas received a favourable report from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) but the world body told it to provide a long-term waste management and safety plan.

      Lynas says that its plant is safe and is not comparable at all to a rare-earths plant in Malaysia that was shut by a unit of Mitsubishi Chemicals in 1992, after residents there blamed the plant for birth defects and a high rate of leukemia cases.

      CHINA'S DOMINANCE

      The Malaysian plant will process rare earths mined in Australia at Lynas' Mount Weld project. The operation is key to relieving China's dominance of the supply of rare earths metals, crucial in a range of products from mobile phones to computer hard drives.

      Japan is counting on Lynas to supply 8,500 tonnes a year of rare earths by early 2013 to curb its reliance on China, under a deal involving trading house Sojitz Corp and state-run Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp.

      China has said that other countries should ramp up production of rare earth minerals and reduce their reliance on Chinese exports. Its government has rolled out measures in the past year such as mining and export quotas as it aims to conserve its rare earths resources.

      (Reporting by Niki Koswanage; writing by Stuart Grudgings; Editing by Ed Lane)
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 19:28:35
      Beitrag Nr. 2.107 ()
      Ein Feiertag heute für alle schon lang und langfristig Investierten in Lynas (wie mich ;)). Bin sehr gespannt auf die Reaktionen in Sydney darauf morgen. Die offizielle Lynas Medienmitteilung steht ja noch aus und kann, mit positiven Sätzen unterlegt, noch einmal einen richtigen Sprung auslösen.

      Spannend und endlich ein Meilenstein zu einer gewinnerwirtschaftenden Minengesellschaft. Wer hat schon einmal das Glück in einen neuen Rohstoffkonzern von der Bohrung bis zur Produktion Teilhhaber zu sein.

      Danke JoJo, für den Aufbau und die ewig engagierte Pflege dieses Forums in den oft auch schwierigen Jahren (2008/09).

      Auch Molycorp legt jetzt los (Zugzwang), wie die heutige Pressemitteilung zeigt:

      http://www.marketwatch.com/story/molycorp-to-receive-390-mil…

      Molycorp To Receive $390 Million Strategic Investment From MolymetInvestment is Slated to Fuel Future Growth and Pursuit of Molycorp's Vertical Integration Plans

      GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Feb 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Molycorp, Inc. /quotes/zigman/595467/quotes/nls/mcp MCP -0.97% announced today that Molibdenos y Metales S.A. (Molymet), the world's largest processor of the strategic metals molybdenum and rhenium, has agreed to invest approximately $390 million in Molycorp in exchange for 12.5 million shares of Molycorp common stock. The price of the Molycorp shares to be purchased were valued based on the 20-day volume weighted average share price as of the close of trading on January 30, 2012 plus a 10.0% premium. Molycorp has agreed to appoint to its Board of Directors upon the closing of the proposed investment a nominee to be designated by Molymet.

      Proceeds from the Molymet investment will be retained by Molycorp for general corporate purposes and will bolster Molycorp's strategic flexibility. The funds are expected to finance Molycorp's future growth and will help the Company continue to pursue its vertical supply chain integration business model. Closing of the transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the receipt of certain governmental regulatory approvals.

      Headquartered in Santiago, Chile, Molymet has a market capitalization of $1.8 billion USD and is the world's leading processor of molybdenum and rhenium. Molymet has plants in Chile, Mexico, Belgium, Germany, and China, and commercial offices in England, China, the U.S., Brazil, and Chile.

      John Graell, Molymet's Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is expected to serve on Molycorp's Board. He has more than 30 years of experience in the metals industry, and is a highly respected industry leader with a long history of business success.

      "We are very pleased with Molymet's decision to make this significant strategic investment in Molycorp, and we look forward to having John Graell, and his wealth of experience and insight, join our Board when nominated by Molymet," said Mark A. Smith, Molycorp President and Chief Executive Officer. "Molymet's investment will help us pursue the growth elements of our business strategy and positions us to capitalize on opportunities that present themselves in the future."

      "We are making this investment in Molycorp because we are very bullish on the upside potential of the company, as well as the highly synergistic technologies and market positioning of our respective companies," said Graell. "Molycorp's vision for growth and global supply chain integration is highly attractive to us, and I look forward to working with the Company to help it achieve its long-term goals."

      Und "Die Welt" schreibt:

      http://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article13844429/China-muss-sei…

      China muss seine Rohstoffe mit der Welt teilen

      ...

      EU-Unternehmen führen bislang Material in einem Wert von jährlich rund einer Mrd. Euro aus China aus. China möchte diese Rohstoffe lieber im eigenen Land verarbeiten – mit den Exportbeschränkungen zwang die Pekinger Regierung die westlichen Firmen dazu, sich entweder in China anzusiedeln, oder für die Rohstoffe empfindlich mehr als ihre einheimischen Wettbewerber zahlen.

      Dieser Dauerkonflikt steht auch auf der Tagesordnung der Wirtschaftsgespräche von Angela Merkel. Die Bundeskanzlerin will vom 2. bis 4. Februar Peking und Kanton besuchen und in der südchinesischen Hafenstadt ein Wirtschaftssymposium moderieren. Auf dessen Agenda steht insbesondere die restriktive Exportpraxis Chinas bei den strategischen Rohstoffen. Der bissige Kommentar von Wettbewerbskommissar De Gucht zeigt, dass der Konflikt mit Merkels Besuch noch nicht vorbei ist: Das aktuelle Urteil bezieht längst nicht alle Rohstoffe ein, die den EU-Firmen so wichtig sind.


      Seltene Erden nicht vom WTO-Schiedsspruch betroffen

      Die EU erwartet nun trotzdem, dass Peking sein „gesamtes Export-Regime neu überdenkt“, das derzeit rund 270 Produkte umfasst. Insbesondere die sogenannten Seltenen Erden, auf deren Förderung China mit über 95 Prozent der weltweiten Förderung aktuell noch ein fast weltweit exklusives Monopol hält, sind von dem Schiedsspruch nicht betroffen.

      Die Erden sind eine Gruppe von metallischen Elementen, die bei der Produktion von High-Tech-Produkten wie Handys, Flachbildschirmen, aber auch Elektromotoren und Akkus benötigt werden. Weltweit verbraucht die Industrie davon gut 130.000 Tonnen pro Jahr – nicht viel im Vergleich zum Verbrauch von Milliarden Tonnen Koks, Bauxit oder Magnesium.

      Doch besonders die weltweite Energiewende, der Trend zu sparsamen Elektroautos samt Batterien und Motoren steigert den Verbrauch der seltenen Metalle. Auch Zukunftstechnologien wie industrielle Supraleiter steigern den Bedarf. 2015, so rechnen Analysten vor, dürfte die Industrie bereits mehr als 190.000 Tonnen verbrauchen.


      EU könnte wegen Seltener Erden klagen, Chancen stehen gut

      Dieser Bedarf würde auch Chinas riesige Abbaustätten in der inneren Mongolei – das Bergwerk Baotou dort fördert allein 40.000 Tonnen jährlich – überfordern, weswegen die chinesischen Tagebauer bereits jetzt die eigene Industrie bevorzugt beliefern. Die Hightechmetalle werden vielerorts illegal abgebaut, ihre Förderung lässt sowohl giftige Rückstände wie auch Abwässer zurück. Diese Begründung für Exportbeschränkungen hatte Peking auch beim aktuellen Urteil versucht, und ist damit bei der WTO nun gescheitert.

      Sollte die EU-Kommission wie mehrfach angedroht nun auch bei den Seltenen Erden klagen, dürfte das Urteil ähnlich ausfallen, deswegen dürften die Chinesen ein größeres Interesse als früher haben, den Streit ohne Gang vors Schiedsgericht zu lösen. Kanzlerin Merkel hatte das Thema schon bei ihrem China-Besuch im Juli 2010 zur „Chefsache“ gemacht.

      Als sie und Premier Wen Jiabao ein Wirtschaftssymposium moderierten, beklagte Jürgen Heraeus, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der Heraeus Holding, Chinas Ausfuhr-Beschränkungen bei Seltenen Erden öffentlich. Die Kanzlerin assistierte ihm.

      Die Zukunfts-Metalle müssten „als neues, ganz wichtiges Problem angesehen werden“, bei dem fraglich sei, ob es für sie „gute Zugangsbedingungen gibt.“ Wen verteidigte damals die Exportbegrenzungen mit Umweltgründen, Knappheiten und der Übervorteilung Chinas, das „früher seine seltenen Erden zum Preis von Salz“ verkaufte. Nun wird er darüber mit Merkel neu verhandeln müssen.
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 16:35:33
      Beitrag Nr. 2.106 ()
      Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 42.681.662 von JoJo49 am 01.02.12 16:28:01Hallo JoJo49,

      vielen Dank für die Beiträge.

      Naja, diese Frau wird nicht aufhören, dass war mir klar.

      Sollte Sie nicht souverän mit Ihrer Einstellung fungieren, dann ist es nur die Frage der Zeit bis Sie auch alle Ihrer ANHÄNGER/JÜNGER verliert.

      Beste Grüße
      FutureEarth
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 16:28:01
      Beitrag Nr. 2.105 ()
      Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 42.681.096 von JoJo49 am 01.02.12 15:17:35Obwohl die Opposition unter der Leitung von Fuziah Salleh über die Erteilung der vorläufigen Betriebserlaubnis durch die AELB topt und das damit die stärkste Bestätigung der Meldung von Heute ist hier noch weitere Bestätigungen:
      http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/lynas-granted-tempo…
      Lynas Granted Temporary Rare-Earth Refining License From Malaysian Board

      By Manirajan Ramasamy - Feb 1, 2012 2:43 PM GMT+0100

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      Googleübersetzt: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=en&tl=de&js=n&prev=_…

      http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/12785435/malaysia-a…
      Lynas Granted Temporary Rare-Earth Refining License From Malaysian Board

      AFPFebruary 2, 2012, 12:21 am

      :::
      Googleübersetzt: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=en&tl=de&js=n&prev=_…
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 15:17:35
      Beitrag Nr. 2.104 ()
      Fuziah Salleh stellt Verschwörungstheorien auf und spricht von einer unsichtbaren Macht dabei beharrt sie auf ihren seit langen wiederlegten Behauptungen.

      Vielleicht schließt sie ja von sich auf andere.

      Grüsse JoJo :)


      http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2012/02/01/fuziah-aelb-most…" target="_blank" rel="nofollow ugc noopener">http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/2012/02/01/fuziah-aelb-most…

      Fuziah: AELB, Mosti caved in to ‘unknown pressure’

      Stephanie Sta Maria | February 1, 2012

      Granting Lynas Corp a license to operate is simply allowing them to treat people like lab rats, says Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh.
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 14:34:40
      Beitrag Nr. 2.103 ()
      Na endlich. Darauf haben ja alle Investierten lange gewartet. Jetzt sollte der Kurs zumindest nach unten nicht mehr durchfallen.

      Mal schaun, wie schnell die Produktion jetzt wirklich anläuft und mit welchen Mengen anfangs der Markt aufgemischt werden kann.
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 13:36:21
      Beitrag Nr. 2.102 ()
      Ein Mailenstein für Lynas!

      Grüsse JoJo :)

      http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/lynas-ge…

      Lynas gets temporary licence to start Kuantan plant

      UPDATED @ 07:58:01 PM 01-02-2012

      By Shannon Teoh

      February 01, 2012

      KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 – Australian miner Lynas Corp has been granted a temporary operating licence (TOL) for its controversial RM2.5 billion rare earth plant in Kuantan despite nearly a year of sustained public protests.

      The Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) said it decided in its January 30 meeting to approve the Australian miner’s application despite receiving 1,123 comments on Lynas’ documents during the public feedback period which ended on January 26.

      “Based on the decision of the board meeting, the application for a (TOL) has been approved with several conditions where if any of them are broken, the licence can be suspended or withdrawn and further applications will not be considered,” said AELB executive secretaryl Raja Datuk Abdul Aziz Raja Adnan (picture) in a statement today.

      The decision by the AELB will finally allow Lynas to fire up its refinery that has raised fears of radiation pollution among local residents and environmentalists.

      AELB has said it will monitor the plant over the next two years within which time Lynas must show that it meets the safe levels of radiation the company has claimed before it is granted a full licence to ramp up operations.

      The company listed on the Australian stock exchange expects an RM8 billion annual windfall once it is operating at full capacity, expected to be in 2013.

      Raja Aziz, who is also AELB director general, said today “the residue that is produced is the responsibility of the company and if necessary, will be returned to its source” in Mount Weld, Australia.

      The conditions that Lynas must meet include detailing all aspects of a permanent disposal facility (PDF) whether or not the mining firm is able to reprocess low level radioactive waste into safe commercial products.

      The AELB also insisted that plans and a location for the PDF must be tabled within 10 months and Lynas must deposit a US$50 million (RM152 million) guarantee with the government.

      The regulators also said it had the right to appoint consultants to evaluate Lynas’ compliance at the cost of the company.

      The Australian miner said last week it expects the start of operations to be delayed to the second quarter from the first quarter of this year.

      The plant was initially due to start operations in September last year but Putrajaya bowed to public pressure last April after loud public protests and put the project on ice pending the review by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

      In July 2011, the government agency adopted 11 recommendations set out by the review of the refinery and said it would not allow Lynas to begin operations or import rare earth ore until all conditions, which include a comprehensive, long-term and detailed plan for managing radioactive waste, are met.

      However, AELB had said Lynas Corp failed to meet any of the conditions in its first proposals.

      The New York Times also reported today that a key contractor had pulled out of the project in the third quarter of last year citing safety issues.

      Dutch multinational AkzoNobel refused to supply crucial resins needed for concrete-walled tanks where hundreds of tons of rare earths with low levels of radiation will be mixed with extremely corrosive acids at more than 93 degrees Celcius.

      Lynas’s local subsidiary has insisted that it can begin operations within six weeks of being given the go-ahead for the plant, which will produce rare earth that is crucial to high technology products such as wind turbines, hybrid cars and smartphones.

      Googleübersetzt: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=en&tl=de&js=n&prev=_…
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      schrieb am 01.02.12 13:06:42
      Beitrag Nr. 2.101 ()
      News Übersicht: http://wotnews.com.au/news/Lynas_Corporation/

      u.a.: Lynas Corp commentary: Michael Ryan, Wed 1st February

      Lynas has recently released a positive update on their Malaysian rare earths project. Contact me for detailed RBS Morgans research.

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      Grüsse JoJo :)
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      schrieb am 31.01.12 22:49:15
      Beitrag Nr. 2.100 ()
      Rare Earth Metal Refinery Nears Approval

      Rahman Roslan for The New York Times

      By KEITH BRADSHER
      Published: February 01, 2012
      KUANTAN, Malaysia - The world's largest refinery for rare earth metals has risen out of the red mud of a coastal swamp here and could soon obtain permission to operate - a step that would help break China's near monopoly on rare earths but also worsen an emerging glut of some of these strategic minerals.

      China's suspension of much-needed exports of rare earths to Japan during a territorial dispute in 2010 fed a bubble in the market that drove prices up 30-fold by last summer. But prices have slumped by up to three-fifths since then for some of the 17 rare earth elements, which are vital to smartphones, wind turbines and other components of the modern economy. The approaching completion of the Malaysian refinery, with the capacity to meet a fifth of the world's demand, has contributed to the plunge.

      The progress towards opening the plant has occurred despite street demonstrations here over radiation worries, regulatory challenges and the withdrawal of a major equipment supplier worried about the safety of the refinery, which is being built by Lynas, an Australian company.

      Raja Dato Abdul Aziz bin Raja Adnan, the director general of the Malaysian Atomic Energy Licensing Board, said by telephone Monday evening that the board had discussed at a closed-door meeting earlier in the day whether to grant an initial operating license of up to two years for the refinery, which is a series of more than a dozen sprawling buildings connected by a labyrinth of pipes. He declined to say what the board had decided, but added that an announcement would be made "sooner rather than later."

      Raja Adnan had said in a phone interview last week that his personal view was that it would be useful to issue the license and then carefully monitor radiation levels at the refinery and in its waste, because he did not trust pilot-scale models designed to predict how the refinery would operate.

      "We still have the right to stop them and suspend and terminate" if the refinery is not running safely, he said. The board also has no obligation to notify the public of its decision, and may not even notify Lynas immediately either, he said.

      A delay before announcing the board's decision gives the country's political leaders time to consider whether to postpone or overrule the issuance of a license. But there has been little sign they will do so, as the project is a cornerstone of Malaysia's economic development plan.

      Fuziah Salleh, an opposition-party lawmaker from Kuantan who has fought the refinery here, said that opponents of the project planned to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks in a last bid to stop it. Critics filed more than 1,000 objections to the project on Thursday, the last day for public comments, partly in the hope that the board would delay action to read them.

      Lynas has been trying for several years to find a site for the permanent disposal of the roughly 20,000 tons a year of low-level radioactive waste that will be produced, and is still struggling to do so.

      The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna recommended last June that a long-term disposal plan be approved by regulators before the refinery starts operations. Lynas now says that it has met this goal with a plan that calls for storing up to 20 years of the refinery's production waste in pits lined with plastic and clay at the refinery, plus a commitment to find a site for a permanent repository and build it. Raja Adnan said that the Malaysian board would require that Lynas meet all of the energy agency's recommendations, but he declined to say whether the company's waste disposal plan complied.

      After sending a team here last spring at the request of the Malaysian government, the agency also recommended that the project include greater public disclosure and communication.

      Malaysian regulators and Lynas put three printed copies of the revised project plan on public view for two weeks this month at four locations in Malaysia, where they could be viewed on request for only one hour at a time. Volunteers ended up taking turns over 56 hours to copy the entire document by hand, then retyped the information at home to recreate the full document, Mrs. Salleh said.

      Nicholas Curtis, the chairman of Lynas, said that the company was using proved Chinese technology, but had paid special attention to improving its safety and environmental performance. "We simply took Chinese processes, scaled them up and cleaned them up," Mr. Curtis said in a speech in Hong Kong in November.

      The authorities in China have also cracked down on the industry in recent months after numerous toxic leaks and some radioactive leaks contaminated thousands of acres over the last two decades.

      Lynas announced last Tuesday that a heavy monsoon and some engineering work had delayed completion of the refinery again, and that it would be ready in the second quarter of this year. It was originally scheduled to begin production last September.

      Lynas plans to mine ore from the Australian desert and concentrate it there, removing dirt but leaving the radioactive contaminants still chemically bound to the rare earth metals. The concentrated ore will then be shipped here, and the rare earth metals will be separated from the radioactive material by using powerful acids at high temperatures.

      One setback for the Lynas project is that a crucial contractor, AkzoNobel, pulled out this autumn, according to engineers here and internal company e-mails. The Dutch chemicals multinational had a contract to supply important resins.

      The resins are supposed to glue together dozens of fiberglass liners for concrete-walled tanks up to the size of double-decker buses. Hundreds of tons of rare earths with low levels of radioactive contamination will be mixed in the lined tanks with extremely corrosive acids at more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

      The corrosiveness of acids increases steeply at high temperatures, which makes acids ideal for dissolving ore but difficult to handle.

      AkzoNobel has long specialized in making some of the most esoteric resins for the mining industry. It uses a secret chemical formula to help the resins hold together fiberglass even under challenging combinations of heat and corrosiveness. The company said last spring that it would supply chemicals for the Lynas project only if it were certain that it would be safe.

      Engineers involved in the project said, and internal e-mails showed, that AkzoNobel withdrew from supplying the chemicals after it was told that the fiberglass liners would be installed in concrete-walled tanks that have a problem with rising dampness in the floors and cracks in the walls. AkzoNobel had been in discussions about the problem of rising dampness, but only became aware of the cracks this autumn, according to the engineers and the memos.

      The engineers said they felt a professional duty to voice their safety concerns, but insisted on anonymity to avoid the risk of becoming industry outcasts.

      In an e-mail, AkzoNobel said that it was no longer supplying the project, but gave only a brief explanation of its reasons. "Due to changes in the project specification, AkzoNobel would only recommend the use of its linings on the project subject to the successful results of longer-term testing," the company said. "That testing cannot be completed within the current project time scale."

      Mr. Curtis, the chairman of Lynas, confirmed that AkzoNobel had pulled out of the project but he insisted that it was not for safety reasons. He declined to elaborate but said that Lynas had found a new supplier for the resins, which he declined to identify.

      Engineers involved in the project said that Lynas was building costlier steel-walled tanks for a second phase of the factory, which would avoid the need for concrete-walled tanks with fiberglass liners. Mr. Curtis denied this, and said that all of the separation tanks and piping at the factory are safe and meet international and Malaysian standards.
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      schrieb am 31.01.12 20:50:35
      Beitrag Nr. 2.099 ()
      http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-lynas-idUSTRE80…

      Lynas warns on any move to shut Malaysia rare earths plant

      MELBOURNE | Tue Jan 31, 2012 2:36am EST

      MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Lynas Corp warned against any move by Malaysia's political opposition to shut the company's $200 million rare earths processing plant, saying on Tuesday such action would deter other foreign investment in the country.

      An opposition member of parliament for Kuantan, where the controversial plant is being built, on Monday told Reuters the opposition would stop the plant if it won elections expected to be called within months.

      Lynas Executive Chairman Nicholas Curtis dismissed Kuantan MP Fuziah Salleh's view as only one view within what would make up the political coalition against the government and said the main opposition PAS party supported the Lynas plant.

      "She is the only person who has come out and said that the opposition would potentially revoke (a license). I do not consider the words of a known opponent to carry necessarily the PAS party position at all," Curtis said, adding that he did not believe her view represented the PKR party's policy either.

      "It would certainly not be stable for foreign direct investment in Malaysia were that situation to occur," he told analysts and reporters on a conference call.


      Lynas is awaiting a temporary license to start operating the rare earths plant and is expected to receive a decision from the cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Razak next week, based on whether the plant meets safety standards for handling radioactive material.

      "We look forward to hearing the final decision of the government in the very near future," Curtis said, declining to comment on whether any conditions may be attached to the temporary license.

      The plant, which is 91 percent complete and on track to be able to start producing in the June quarter, will process rare earths from Lynas's Mount Weld mine in Australia.

      The operation is key to breaking China's grip on the supply or rare earths metals, crucial in high-tech and green products ranging from smartphones to hybrid cars.

      Curtis said quotas imposed by China on rare earths exports as it deals with environmental problems at some domestic operations were likely to constrain supply for some time.

      "We do expect that prices will continue to reflect a structural deficit in the market for a period of time to come," Curtis said.

      (Reporting by Sonali Paul; Editing by Ed Davies)

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