Currently, the United States relies on supply chains controlled by China for the vast majority of its supply of rare ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric ...

Why Ukraine’s 2.5-bn-year-old minerals are so important – and why Trump wants them - ANALYSIS: The minerals have become ...

China is retaliating against U.S. tariffs by restricting exports of rare earth minerals. Minerals expert Gracelin Baskaran ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

Mining of rare-earth minerals in China’s Inner Mongolia, in 2011. (Reuters) In its retaliation against U.S. tariffs, China slowed exports of several rare-earth minerals and magnets this month ...

North Dakota lawmakers are advancing a bill to promote the development of rare earth minerals. The bill aims to establish North Dakota as a leader in rare earth mineral production, which is ...

Prospecting for rare-earth minerals at the proposed Sheep Creek mine south of Darby will continue in 2025, after the ...

Ukraine’s mineral resources are concentrated in two geologic provinces. The larger of these, known as the Ukrainian Shield, is a wide belt running through the center of the country, from the northwest ...

"Rare earth minerals" sound very ... So they take the actual rare earths out of the rest of the rock in China, which makes the rest of the world highly vulnerable to any restrictions that they ...