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| | Rare Metal Sales Must Be Regulated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Russia should set up a body to regulate exports of rare minor metals, Nikolai Bobov, chief of a government crime unit, was reported as saying Wednesday. |
 | | Russia loses at least $50 million a year from the illegal export of minor metals such as rhenium, cadmium, caesium, yttrium and niobium, Bobov, a senior member of the Interior Ministry's Department of Economic Crime, told Kommersant. |
 | | Bobov mentioned incidents where osmium, gallium and concentrate containing high levels of precious and rare minor metals had either disappeared from research laboratories or turned up for sale illegally. |
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