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The 15-year effort by Japan is a model for countries now scrambling to reduce their dependence on Beijing’s critical metals. Sojitz, a Japanese conglomerate, turned to Lynas, an Australian mining ...

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 ...

USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) stock, one of a handful of start-up companies attempting to jump-start rare-earth oxide mining and rare-earth magnet manufacturing in the United States, soared 19% ...

Weary of being captive to geopolitics, car companies are looking for ways to replace powerful rare-earth magnets in electric motors. BMW is using motors without ...

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 ...

For years, a mining project in Africa held the promise of helping free the West from its dependence on China for rare earths. Some weeks back, it fell into Chinese hands. The failure of Peak Rare ...

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 ...