Rare earth minerals are so ubiquitous and critical to much of today’s technology, that tonight’s dinner might not have made it to the table without them. And according to USA Rare Earth CEO Barbara ...
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, ...
MP is the battle-tested operator. It runs one of the only scaled rare-earth mines and processing facilities in the U.S., and production of critical NdPr magnet materials jumped sharply year-over-year ...
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 ...
The U.S. House of Representatives has given a unanimous thumbs-up to the Give Kids A Chance Act, which would revive the FDA’s rare pediatric review voucher program following its expiration in December ...
Chinese rare-earth magnet companies are finding workarounds to their government’s onerous export restrictions, as they seek to keep sales flowing to Western buyers without falling afoul of Chinese ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vulcan Elements, a North Carolina startup determined to revitalize U.S. production of rare earth magnets, has chosen Johnston County as the site of its first major factory. The N.C. Department of ...
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 ...