U.S. efforts to break China's dominance of the rare earths market and to drive investment in its own industry have moved up a ...

MP Materials’ goal to become a national rare-earths “champion” that can go toe-to-toe with China was turbocharged by Pentagon ...

China's exports growth beat expectations in June as businesses continued to divert shipments to non-U.S. markets while ...

Following talks with the US thought to include reductions in critical mineral export restrictions, China reports 60 per cent ...

Exports were 60% higher than the 4,829 tons exported in June 2024. Cumulatively over the first six months of this year, China ...

Low environmental standards helped China become the world’s low-cost producer of rare earths, but Beijing was also focused on ...

China's rare-earth exports expanded significantly in June, maintaining a growth momentum from the previous month and compared ...

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

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

As rare earth supply chains are disrupted by tariffs and other trade barriers with China, e-waste recycling is growing as a ...

China’s dominance of the rare-earths market is a relatively new phenomenon. For the latter half of the 20th century, Mountain Pass was the world’s main supplier of rare earth metals.

Beyond China, rare earths are also featured in US foreign policy objectives with Ukraine, Greenland and Saudi Arabia. “Ukraine is a very, very nascent mining industry, ...