China Rare Earth and Permanent Magnet Industry Market Application Summit 2020

The 6th China International LiCoNi summit will be held on 20-21 May 2021 in Changsha, Hunan.

The 10th Secondary Lead-acid Battery Industry Summit 2020—held by SMM—took place today, at which SMM senior Pb analyst Xia Wenming gave a speech on the theme of “How China lead market will fare in H2 2020 on the backdrop of oversupply”

China rare earth producer Shenghe Resources which has survived the Sichuan flood, issued an update on its losses yesterday.

With the entry of intelligent networking, new energy, lightweight and intelligent manufacturing, we are witnessing an exciting revolution in the automotive industry. Rapid changes in technology require the industry to integrate and innovate continuously, which promotes the accelerated development at auto companies.

The adjustment brought quotes of terbium oxide to 4.7 million yuan/mt, up 150,000 yuan/mt from a week ago, marking the seventh consecutive week of increase. This followed a rise of 100,000 yuan/mt in the previous week.  

China Southern Rare Earth Group, one of the six state-owned rare earth mining groups in China, continued to lift the listed prices for terbium oxide, a type of medium-to-heavy rare earth oxide, for this week. 

Prices of praseodymium-neodymium oxides, a type of light rare earth, increased for the fifth consecutive day as of May 14, lifted by stepped-up downstream stockpiling as demand resumes with the fading impact of the coronavirus pandemic. 

Southwest China's Yunnan province has unveiled detailed allocation of its first batch of rare earth and tungsten mining output quotas for this year. According to a circular issued by the province’s Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday, Yunnan issued 2,615 mt of mining quotas for tungsten concentrate and 12 mt for rare earth in the first batch for 2020.

China Southern Rare Earth Group, one of the six, state-owned rare earth mining groups in China, has raised the weekly listed prices for gadolinium oxide and holmic oxide while cut prices of erbium oxide. Overall demand for medium-and-heavy rare earth oxides remained weak. 

Prices of light and medium-to-heavy rare earth products mostly declined last week as the widespread COVID-19 overseas weakened investors’ prospects for demand and kept domestic consumers from...