A small toy figure and mineral imitation are seen in front of the Lynas Rare Earths logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021.
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Acquire Licensing RightsSummaryCompanies Lynas to conduct planned shutdown of Malaysia opsCo to upgrade NdPr production in Malaysia to 10,500tpaQtrly sales revenue slips 21.8%Shares fall as much as 2.7%Oct 20 (Reuters) - Australia's Lynas Rare Earths (LYC.AX) said on Friday it planned to shut all operations in Malaysia except a mixed rare earth carbonate processing plant in the December quarter, with minimal volumes of the raw material processed during the shutdown.
Shares of the miner fell as much as 2.7% to A$6.24 by 0045 GMT, the lowest since May 3.
It will implement an upgrade to its downstream operations at Lynas Malaysia to increase production of neodymium-praseodymium (NdPr) to about 10,500 tonnes per annum.
NdPr production for the quarter came in at 1,526 rare earth oxide tonnes (REOt), compared with 1,045 REOt a year earlier.
Persons:
Dado Ruvic, Lynas, Anwar Ibrahim, Henry Jennings, Echha Jain, Adwitiya Srivastava, Devika Syamnath, Jacqueline Wong
Organizations:
REUTERS, Co, 10,500tpa, Malaysian, Marcustoday, Thomson
Locations:
Malaysia, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, China, Bengaluru