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Lynas mega-deal sparks global race for low-cost rare earths
October 6, 2026 — 12:21pm For decades, the Western market’s playbook for breaking China’s choke-hold on the rare earths sector read like an instructional manual on how to incinerate capital. The strategy was almost dogmatic: target complex, hard-rock monazite or apatite monsters, raise astronomical…