Lynas faces one final legal hurdle as it edges closer to production AUSTRALIAN rare earths producer Lynas says today that it faces only one remaining legal challenge to its controversial new refinery in Malaysia, where it expects to have produced its first sample products next month. The final case, the last of three requests for a judicial review by a local activist group, was due to be heard next Tuesday, but that date has been postponed to allow the court to deal with some "preliminary matters," Lynas said, without elaborating further.