From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but ...

Japan is preparing to test mud containing rare earth elements from the seabed near the remote island of Minamitorishima in ...

However, USA Rare Earth is taking a somewhat unusual approach. Its ultimate plan is to operate on a "mine to magnet" basis.

A huge discovery in Utah County's Lake Mountains is generating confidence that the United States will not have to be so reliant on China for mining materials.

The distribution is highly uneven. China alone holds nearly half of the global total, followed by Brazil’s sizable deposits.

(Tecumseh) -- Excavation work is expected to begin early next year on a rare earth minerals mine in southeast Nebraska.

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to ...

China is still restricting the rare earth elements that the US needs to produce its own permanent magnets and other products ...

The West Virginia University Board of Governors has put its support behind the creation of a for-profit limited liability company with a goal of bringing WVU-developed rare earth element technologies ...

The Pacific Ocean’s vast deposits of critical minerals are essential to any plan to compete with China’s dominance of the ...

Interlune is not a novelty. “Startups from Silicon Valley to North Carolina to the U.K. are offering up new solutions to ...

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group ...