摘要
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly released 2018 rare earth mining quotas recently with the aim to protect environment and develop mineral resources rationally.According to the notice,overall 2018 rare earth mining quotas is limited as 120,000 tons REO,of which 19,150 tons is ion-adsorption type rare earths mineral(mainly medium and heavy rare earths)and the other 100,850 tons is rock type rare earth mineral(mainly light rare earths).