Michael talks to Professor Dudley Kingsnorth, Curtin University Head of Critical Materials Initiative and world authority on the rare earths market & rare earths project development, who says it’s possible that Australia could build a $100 billion industry in mining, processing & manufacturing with our ‘rare earths’.

Rare earths are a group of 17 minerals vital for electronics… anything from windfarms to vacuum cleaners, mobile phones to fighter jets for which China currently holds about 40% of the world's reserves but controls about 90% of production.