Rare earths are already feeling the squeeze of Chinese control. Other metals, including copper could end up the same way.
Finance ministers from the G7 and other major economies met in Washington on Monday to discuss ways to reduce dependence on ...
Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...
Lithium is lionized. Silicon has a whole valley named after it. But what about the silent heroes of modern technology? Rare earth elements—a set of 17 related metals, mostly shunted off to a tacked-on ...
Canberra is working with Washington and other allies to diversify global critical-mineral supply chains that are dominated by ...
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The Western world keeps talking about mineral independence, but most of that ambition collapses the moment the materials hit a refinery. The truth ...
A Utah-based company announced it has uncovered 16 critical minerals and rare earth elements at Silicon Ridge in Utah County’s Lake Mountains. The findings by Ionic Mineral Technologies validate one ...
A Chinese-led team of scientists has made a world-first discovery, identifying a naturally formed mineral containing rare earth elements (REEs) inside a living plant. The researchers found nanoscale ...
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