Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co Profits

China’s leading Rare Earth producer records rising 1-H Y 2011 net profits

Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Rare-Earth Hi-Tech Co., the Country’s leading Rare Earth producer, said Monday that 1-H Y 2011 net profit rose 458.51% from a year earlier on a wave of soaring prices of Rare Earth products.

Its net profit totaled 1.976-B Yuan (US$307-M) in 1-H of this year, the Company said in a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Earnings per share were 1.632 Yuan in 1-H, compared with 0.292 Yuan in the same period last year, according to the statement.

Revenue reached 5.979-B Yuan, + 156.81% Y-Y, the statement said.

The Company said prices of rare earth metals increased significantly in 1-H of the year, which led to a rise in profits, and forecast is for a drastic increase in net profits for the 1st 3 Quarters.

Shares of the company fell 4.19% to 61.29 Tuan on Monday. The decline outpaced the 3.79 fall of the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index in wake of the US credit rating downgrade.

Paul A. Ebeling, Jnr.

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