Japan and Kazakhstan seek cooperation in the north of Kazakhstan the earth dysprosium to go mining. This would make Japan less dependent on China that its export of metals has greatly limited.
The plans of Japan to work with Kazakhstan dysprosium to go digging in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun revealed, reports Reuters. The two countries would in may an agreement want to close with a number of Japanese companies, the Kazachstaanse company Kazatoprom with technical resources will assist you with rare earth mining in the former Soviet republic. The countries want to be in the place Kazatoprom a factory to build pure dysprosium to isolate from uranium ore.
The rare earth, among others, in electric motors is to be found, is currently 99 percent won in China. By the export restrictions that the country has set up, the price of rare earth in recent years, however, strongly sustained. Various countries to the world trade organisation stepped because China would counter act with the rules of the WTO.
Japan, with its elektronicafabrieken is highly dependent on such raw materials, hopes to build new production facilities in other countries the dependence on China in the long term to be able to reduce. This year they hope to all 30 tonnes of dysprosium from Kazakhstan to be able to import, while this next year should rise to 50 tonnes. Japan has annually 500 tonnes of dysprosium required.