in the nuclear industry knew dimmy m is used to make magnets and lanthanum is used in camera lenses they are not as rare as the name rare earths might suggest but can be hard to mine and damaging to the environment not china supplies nearly 3 quarters of the world s rare earths 120000 metric tons that is other big producers include australia with 20000 tonnes the us used to be a big producer but now just comes up with 15000 tonnes now for more on this let s cross over to our correspondent in taipei to saying han is there welcome to what is the strategy here now that china is threatening to cut the rare earth supplies to the united states. yes chris as you mentioned china is the global leader of rare earth 90 percent of the world s rare earth production is
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