China’s Rare Earth Supply Chain: Illegal Production, and Response to new Cerium Demand

JOM

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1948-1956

  Nguyen, Ruby Thuy ^a   Imholte, D Devin ^a  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; CERIUM ALLOYS; COMMERCE; COMPETITION; CRIME; SUPPLY CHAINS; WIND TURBINES;

AUTOMOTIVE ALUMINUM; DEMAND AND SUPPLY; HEAVY RARE EARTHS; LIGHT RARE EARTHS; PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES; PRODUCTION COST; REVENUE STREAMS; SIMULATION MODEL;

RARE EARTHS;

EID: 84962273084     PISSN: 10474838     EISSN: 15431851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11837-016-1894-1     Document Type: Article

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