The Pentagon has agreed to spend $400 million to take a 15 percent ownership stake in MP Materials, a U.S. company that mines ...

A multi-billion deal from the US government to back domestic miner and magnet maker MP Materials has the rare earth sector rocking.

Once the exploration efforts of rare earth bear viable fruit, the authorities can opt for a price discovery model. This will ...

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth ...

The U.S. government must pursue an innovative, dynamic approach to reestablish permanent magnet manufacturing before ...

The continent wants to reduce the risks of depending so heavily on China for the valuable minerals. The question is how.

It’s an irony that the minerals needed to save the planet may help destroy it. Rare earth elements, the mineral backbones of wind turbines and electric vehicles, are now the prize in a geopolitical ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...

Japan plans to begin pioneering test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed in January next year, the head of the government-backed project told ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth elements, but only if it is willing to take ...