Europe Sets Its Sights on Brazil’s Rare Earth Riches | Metals Mine

  • Europe Sets Its Sights on Brazil’s Rare Earth Riches

    From oilprice.com

    The European Union has been looking for rare-earth suppliers outside China for a while now. Last year, Commission president Ursula von der Leyen declared, “The aim is to secure access to alternative sources of critical raw materials in the short, medium and long term for our European industries.” It seems one of these alternative sources will be Brazil. “We will speed up work on critical raw materials partnerships with countries like Ukraine and Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Chile and Greenland,” von der Leyen also said in October last year when she made the alternative sources declaration. ... (full story)

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