In September 2020, China's exports of rare earths fell by 43.9% year-on-year to 2,003.3 tons

  On October 13, the General Administration of Customs released the "Table of Values of National Key Export Commodities for September 2020".

  In rare earth related fields: China's rare earth export volume was 2,003.3 tons in September 2020, down 43.9% compared with the same period last year;In September 2020, China's rare earth export amount will reach 130 million yuan.From January to September 2020, China's exports of rare earths were 26,380.6 tons, down 27.5 percent from the same period last year.From January to September 2020, China's rare earth exports totaled 1.78 billion yuan, down 25.5 percent from the same period last year.

  And Peru's copper mining industry has almost fully recovered from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, a government official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.Peru is the world's second-largest producer of copper.

  But Peru's copper output fell 2.2% from a year earlier to 198,796 tons in July as a result of the outbreak, Jaime Galvez, deputy minister of energy and mining, said at a virtual conference.

  In mid-March, the Peruvian government ordered a coronavirus quarantine and placed special restrictions on mining activities.The sector, an important economic engine for the Andean country, began slowly returning to normal operations in May.

  In early August, the government said copper production in the first half of 2020 was down 20.4 per cent from the same period in 2019.