NGOs expose global surge in new met coal mines, expansions
The first-ever Metallurgical Coal Exit List (MCEL) names the companies driving hundreds of new metallurgical coal projects and expansions.
China’s global share of rare earth output will drop steeply in the next two years as other countries ramp up production to compensate for domestic curbs on mining the minerals, a former government official and future rare earth group chief said.
The country’s rare earth output would drop from 95 percent of global output to 60 percent, reversing global reliance on China, Wang Caifeng, a former Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) official told the official China Daily.
