Unten der Link, hier Auszüge: Under the proposed new standards, the permissible amount of pollutant in a liter of waste water from production should contain 15 milligrams of ammonia nitrogen, an improvement on the current 25 mg, said Huang, who is part of a team tasked to draft the standards. These also include new regulations on emission quantities of radioactive elements and phosphorus, she said. "The government will allow two or three years for rare earth companies to upgrade their techniques. If they don't meet the standards, the miners will be banned from the industry," said Huang. ..... China is speeding up the pace of mergers and acquisitions in the rare earths sector and is encouraging consolidation among State-owned enterprises. Industry sources said the central government wants to reduce 123 rare earth mines across the nation to less than 10, as well as reduce the number of processing firms from the current 73 to 20. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-01/07/content_11807062.htm |