Lynas in a sentence

MCA vice-president Ti Lian Ker recently said that Wong Tack and fellow Lynas critic Fuziah Salleh, MP for Kuantan, should step down as they had capitalised on anti-Lynas sentiments to win in the 2018 general election.

On the voters who said they felt the Opposition had cheated them with the Lynas issue, the assemblyman, who is a Lynas critic, said: “They got frightened.

The Lynas refinery in Malaysia, its first outside China producing minerals that are crucial to hi-tech manufacturing, has been operating in central Pahang state since 2012.

The Mt Weld rare earths deposit in Western Australia, owned by Lynas Rare Earths, is as big as any other in the world, Mavrogenes says.

Aron Lynas and Matty Shiels then both came close to levelling, before a glorious chance came and went for the home side.

Lynas is also ramping up processing at its Kalgoorlie rare earth processing facility in Australia, and building light rare earths processing facilities and a heavy rare earths separation facility in Texas, US.

Pamela Minford, centre manager at Castle Mall, said: “We are enjoying a noticeable increase in our number of shoppers since the opening of Lynas Food Outlet and are delighted to see additional tenants move onsite as well.

Circling back to Lynas, the Australian firm released a brief statement indicating interest in the potential U.S. project.

Rare earths group Lynas has been forced to refute claims in Malaysia that it misled the ASX with an announcement last month it had reached an agreement for a site for the permanent disposal of its contentious toxic waste.

During the latter half of the fiscal year, Lynas began reserving NdPr for its strategic customers amid the market uncertainty brought on by trade tensions between Beijing and Washington.

Lynas chief executive officer (CEO) Amanda Lacaze has vowed not to cede her company’s market share outside of China.

Lynas previously insisted that it cannot manage to export 450,000 tonnes of the water leach purification (WLP) residue, a by-product of their refinery operations, by September and offered to build the PDF as a compromise.

Lynas shares closed 6¢ lower at $2 on Monday.

Lynas will also have to identify a specific site to construct a permanent disposal facility.

Opposing views expressed by his cabinet ministers on Lynas last week highlighted the delicate balancing act the veteran politician has had to manage on this very public issue.

Rare earth miner Lynas Corp says it is stockpiling two rare earth metals and limiting sales to its strategic partners because of price volatility amid the US-China trade war and a slowing global economy.

She would have been doubly unimpressed that this team was joining another Wesfarmers group flying in from Perth to talk with Malaysian government officials about its interest in Lynas and the regulatory jungle engulfing the group.

Wesfarmers’ other foray into the electric vehicle space played out this year with the proposed, but ultimately abandoned, acquisition of Lynas.

Wesfarmers surprised the market when it went public with a highly conditional $1.5 billion offer for Lynas in March, at a time when the target faced an existential crisis over the renewal of its Malaysian licence.

Within kilometres of the Lynas plant there are other industrial operations that produce much more hazardous and more radioactive wastes.