Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing's dominance of high-performance magnets, used in everything from consumer electronics to weapon systems, by developing new projects for mining, processing, ...

President Donald Trump’s focus on securing the domestic rare earth minerals market puts the White House in a bind: Does it ignore its promise to deregulate? Trump, shortly after returning to office in ...

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When President Trump travels to Beijing early next year to finalize a new trade deal, China will deploy one of its favorite pressure tactics: restricting exports of rare earth elements. Last month, ...

The Lynas Advanced Materials Plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, which processes 12 to 15 percent of the world’s rare earth elements. Credit: Lynas Rare Earths A two-billion-year-old volcanic plug in Western ...

A bunch of materials called rare earth elements (REE) that are crucial for producing a vast range of tech products – from electric cars to smartphones to wind turbines – typically require destructive ...

Looking ahead: The rare-earth sector now sits at the intersection of chemistry, geopolitics, and industrial finance. On one side lies a legacy global system dominated by large solvent-extraction ...

Welcome to the dirty side of rare earths, which ironically are key to the “clean energy” transition. November 21, 2025 China’s dominance of rare earth supply chains, and their critical role in nearly ...

The Trump administration's push to secure U.S. supply chains of rare earth minerals amid trade tensions with China features a public-private partnership with a domestic producer that now has the ...

The contracts are the latest sign of how Europe is lagging the United States in the race to break China’s chokehold on rare earths. By Liz Alderman Liz Alderman, who covers the European economy and ...

China is reportedly crafting a plan to block the US military from getting shipments of rare earth magnets – even as it eases restrictions on shipments to US companies making electronics and other ...