The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Ramaco, a mining company, is developing a small coal mine in Wyoming that will extract rare earth elements from the coal it ...

Trump, who sued the WSJ and its owners including Rupert Murdoch for at least $10 billion on Friday over the newspaper's ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

Tori-shima, aimed at extracting cobalt and nickel for EV batteries, faces disruption. Scientists have developed a ...

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

Japan and the European Union will consider joint public-private partnerships as they look to reduce their reliance on China in areas such as the procurement of rare earths, the Nikkei newspaper ...

Beijing’s 91% grip on materials vital to defence and electric vehicles is down to its scale, but also its lead in processing.