随着中国稀土出口政策开始收紧,西方加速开采稀土矿成为近期一些海外媒体密集报道的内容。日本住友商社开始在哈萨克斯坦参与从铀矿中提取稀土的商业活动,丰田通商表示除了在印尼从事从锡矿中提炼稀土资源的活动之外还将在蒙古、越南开发矿山。与此同时,因为对后期市场供应和价格均有较高预期,美国、澳大利亚、加拿大等国也正着手准备重新开采本国一些地区的稀土矿,一些加拿大公司除了加紧建设原有项目外,还正在南非、美国和巴西开发新矿。很显然,中国以外的稀土项目和矿产资源开始被中国的“收紧政策”激活,是中国在稀土资源保卫战上的初战告捷。因为“收紧出口→抬高价格→激活海外矿 As China's rare earth export policy began to tighten, the accelerated exploitation of rare earth ore in the West has become the subject of some overseas media coverage recently. Japan's Sumitomo trading company started to participate in commercial activities of extracting rare earths from uranium deposits in Kazakhstan. Toyota Tsusho said it will develop mines in Mongolia and Vietnam in addition to activities of extracting rare earth resources from tin mines in Indonesia. At the same time, the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries are also preparing for the re-mining of rare earth mines in some parts of the country because of higher expectation on the market supply and prices in the latter part of the world. In addition to stepping up the construction of existing projects, some Canadian companies are also South Africa, the United States and Brazil to develop new mines. Obviously, rare earth projects and mineral resources outside China started to be activated by China's ”tightening policy,“ which marked the first victory of China in the battle for the defense of rare earth resources. Because ”tighten exports → raise prices → activate overseas mines