Companies that bet on rare earths as a hot commodity play are canceling investments or switching attention to other metals like gold after being caught by a sharp fall in prices this year.
那些将稀土当做热门大宗商品并在其身上下注的企业,目前正纷纷取消在这方面的投资,或是将注意力转向黄金等其他金属,稀土价格今年的大幅下跌令它们遭了秧。
While smaller in size than industry heavyweights like Molycorp Inc. and Lynas Corp. Ltd., these mining companies are responsible for millions of dollars of spending each year to find and develop elements used in products ranging from iPads to Prius cars.
这些公司虽然在规模方面比采矿业龙头企业Molycorp Inc.和Lynas Corp.等要小,但它们每年用于稀土勘探和开发的资金达数亿美元。稀土被广泛用于从平板电脑iPad到油电混合动力轿车普锐斯(Prius)等诸多产品。
Many of them capitalized on fears of a China-induced supply shortage of rare earths two years ago to attract new investors and debut on some of the world's biggest stock markets. Some -- like Australia's Kimberley Rare Earths Ltd. -- were so confident of the commodity's outlook thatthey enshrined it in their name.
许多这类采矿企业都利用中国两年前人为制造的稀土供应短缺所引发的恐惧来吸引新的投资者,并借此在一些世界上最大的股市成功上市。它们中的一些企业,如澳大利亚的金伯利稀土公司(Kimberley Rare Earths Ltd.),对稀土的市场前景是如此充满信心,以至于它们在公司名称里加进了稀土一词。
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