The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that
left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.
But the Chinese have warned that their own domestic
industry appetite for rare earths may eventually force them to stop exporting — an action that would
leave the U.S. high - tech
industries crippled without other readily available supplies.