Von der Leyen visits Japan for two days starting Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold a summit with von ...

Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, ...

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

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 ...

While rare earth mineral trading generates modest revenue, their strategic value far outweighs market price as governments ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1 900 km southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the government-backed project ...

It is an opportunity to build domestic capacity, strike deals with other countries and address dependency in its green energy ...

However, this “trump card” did not come into China’s possession overnight. Behind its global dominance in rare earth exports lies a long history of weak technology and resou ...

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

The Government of India launched the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) in 2025 to establish a robust framework for self-reliance in the critical mineral sector.

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such ...