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Handout and graphics by Prajukti Bhattacharyya, using data from Tse, Pui-Kwan, 2011, China's rare-earth production, consumption, and export quotas for 2000 through 2011 in China’s rare-earth industry: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1042, 11 pp., Kelly, T.D., and Matos, G.R., comps., 2011, U.S. Geological Survey, 2011, REE statistics, in Historical statistics for mineral and material commodities in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 140 (http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/), and Bade, 2010, Rare Earth Review: Is the Hype Justified? (http://www.slideshare.net/RareEarthsRareMetals/libertas-rareearthreview).

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