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https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/global/21rare.html?_r=1&src=twrhp&pagewanted=print
January 20, 2011
China Seizes Rare Earth Mine Areas
By KEITH BRADSHER
HONG KONG — A Chinese government agency has taken steps to more tightly manage the production and export of rare earth minerals, crucial materials used in a wide range of technologies and products vital to the West.
The agency, the Ministry of Land and Resources, invoked a seldom-used mining law to take direct control of 11 rare earth mining districts in southern China.
The ministry said in a statement, posted on its Web site Wednesday and briefly mentioned Thursday by the state media, that rare earth mining in those districts, all at the southern end of Jiangxi Province, had been placed under its national planning authority....