稀土价格跌太多、海外成本过高，被认为是北美摆脱中国“稀土控制”的重要项目停工。稀土离底部价格拐点越来越近了

Canadian rare earths producer Vital Metals has suspended construction work at its half-finished Saskatoon rare earth processing facility in Canada.

The move comes as the company has determined that its plans to market the facility’s intermediate product are not economic.

The company planned to complete a calcine circuit to enable the production of an intermediate rare earths oxide product for the potential sale to a third party.

However, it could not secure such sales on “commercially satisfactory terms”.

Subsequently, the company completed a review of the economic viability of mining and processing ore at North T, a deposit in the Northwest Territories, which showed “the scale of operations and associated unit operating costs will not achieve positive cash flow from the project”.

The company cited both increased plant costs and reduced rare earth prices as factors in its decision to stop plant construction.