TOKYO RARE EARTH MEETING STRESSES DIALOGUE WITH CHINA, COOPERATION, ALTERNATIVE SUPPLY
March 1st, 2012
BY MARTIN FOSTER, IN TOKYO
AN AMERICAN government minister told a Tokyo-based seminar on the strategic implications of shortages in rare earth that consumer nations faced the need to reduce and over the near to medium term.
US energy secretary Steven Chu said that in the short term it is important to develop technologies to reduce rare earth use, and that rare earth elements should be "used as sparingly as you can."
Chu also noted that improving processing and recycling of rare earth is crucial over the medium term, without elaborating further. ...
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