Rare earths: recent trends

摘要

The rare earths industry has always been a world of rapid change, emergence of new markets, disappearance of old applications, new ores, and new players. rare earths based products are used in a great diversity of applications such as hard disk drives, CD drives, batteries, capacitors, pigments, ceramics, polishing powders, fuel cells, flints, catalyst converter, fluid cracking catalysts etc.