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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lynas Corporation, Ltd. is an Australian rare earths mining company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange as a S&P/ASX 200 company. It has two major operations: a mining and concentration plant at Mount Weld, Western Australia, and a refining facility now under construction at Kuantan, Malaysia. The company was founded in 1983 as Yilgangi Gold NL The company took on the Lynas name in 1985. It became publicly listed in 1986 on the ASX. In 2001, it sold off its gold division and focused on rare earths. Lynas was founded by Nicholas Curtis, a former executive director at Macquarie Group Ltd. The production at Mount Weld is intended both to be sold directly to other countries for further refining, and to act as a feed stock for the company's facility, under construction in Malaysia. In November 2010, it signed an agreement with the Japanese rare earths trading company Sojitz to export $350 million worth of rare earth minerals from its mine in Mount Weld.

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