Mercurial and highly unpredictable, President Donald Trump has put the US on a collision course with China. Amid the hot and cold tariff war, the US government has become the biggest shareholder in ...

Australian rare earths miners Lynas Rare Earths and Iluka Resources soared on Friday, riding the coat-tails of a landmark ...

A recent assessment by Australian firm Earth Rarest estimated that Australia could supply up to 20 per cent of global demand for neodymium and praseodymium, but warned that a full replacement of ...

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

The deal would see the Defense Department take a 15% stake in MP Materials and spend billions of dollars investing in the ...

The Pentagon is making a $400mn direct investment in a US rare earths producer, in an unusual arrangement highlighting the Trump administration’s determination to break Chinese dominance of critical ...

Progress in trade talks will depend on how Beijing wields its export controls on rare earths that are vital to energy ...

Japan's Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya urged his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Thursday to ease Beijing's export ...

MP Materials will build a new rare earth magnet plant in a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense as the U.S. looks to cut foreign dependency.

China is home to about 70% of the world's rare earth mining and 90% of refining capacity as a result of years of government ...

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast ...

MP Materials partners with DoD to build a rare earth magnet supply chain, backed by $1.55 billion in funding and a long-term ...