00:00Global jitters about Beijing's dominance as a rare earths producer have kicked Australian
00:06mining giant Linus into action, expanding its portfolio of rare earths defined in Malaysia
00:12as it hopes to boost its approximately 10% share of the market.
00:17China makes up the other 90% of the world's market, stoking fears about Beijing's ability
00:23to choke global supplies.
00:24Rare earths are a key ingredient in products ranging from smartphones to fighter jets,
00:31electric cars and wind turbines, and increasingly for hardware powering the artificial intelligence
00:36boom.
00:38Linus Chief Executive Amanda Lacosto AFP that China's success was built on executing a
00:45clear industrial plan, stressing that it takes Linus to be equally serious about it and that
00:50pushing against Chinese dominance, will take discipline, focus and clear planning.
00:56The Linus facility in Geibeng is now the world's largest single rare earths processing plant.
01:02Norfolk Virajah F&T.
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