sumitomo, page-25

Hi Ltl

Japan must be desperate to do business with any of the "stans"

Maybe safer for Japan to stick with seabed mining. We all know what it is like to be underwater with rare earths:)

I think that 1000t of concentrate would recovery more than 20Kg Dysprosium.

Your article states that they would produce 30t in 2012 and 50+t Dysprosium in 2013, ramping up to 1100t concentrate in 18-24 months which would coincide with the end of 2013.

So they may get up to 50t Dysprosium per 1000t concentrate.

Lets hope they don't ramp up to 10-15,000t of concentrate by 2014/15 as the article states. We might as well close up shop.