Re: [Vo]: China's Neodymium monopoly is being felt

2006-12-12 Thread Akira Kawasaki
PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 11, 2006 7:12 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]: China's Neodymium monopoly is being felt On Friday 01 December 2006 17:51, OrionWorks wrote: FYI, It's my understanding that the Chinese government has recently increased the price of raw materials to all magnet

Re: [Vo]: China's Neodymium monopoly is being felt

2006-12-11 Thread Standing Bear
On Friday 01 December 2006 17:51, OrionWorks wrote: FYI, It's my understanding that the Chinese government has recently increased the price of raw materials to all magnet manufacturers by 60%. This presumably includes the rare-earth material, NEODYMIUM. As previously mentioned on this

Re: [Vo]: China's Neodymium monopoly is being felt

2006-12-11 Thread OrionWorks
... Wars have been fought over that kind of monopolistic activity. The Japanese allegedly hit us at Pearl in the last century after we denied them sale of scrap iron needed by them; and the Germans were forced to use flammable hydrogen for the dirigible 'Hindenburg' with disastrous