China's REE Export for 2012China is expected to release its export quota for 2012 before the end of the year. Just under three weeks from now. ....Jia Yinsong, a director in charge of rare earths at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), revealed on November 30 that only 40 percent (11,000 tonnes) of the year’s quota had been exported, a 65 percent drop from 2010....The next few weeks will be VERY interesting to companies such as Avalon