Alarm bells sound as China strengthens its chokehold on Australia's high-tech metals

There's not much Dudley Kingsnorth doesn't know about the high-tech metals used to make everything from batteries to MRI machines to fighter jets.

The mining industry veteran has been studying rare earths – those critical minerals with unpronounceable names like 'praseodymium' and 'yttrium' – since the 1960s.

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