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Additionally, the Department of Defense has agreed to purchase a $400 million equity stake in rare-earth miner MP Materials, ...

Donald Trump is pushing the U.S. government deeper into corporate boardrooms, taking direct ownership stakes and executive ...

The Trump administration has shown that it’s willing to buy up stakes in publicly traded companies, a level of intervention ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

When China restricted rare earth exports to Japan in 2010 during a diplomatic spat, a wild west domestic industry undermined Beijing with rampant smuggling. In a sharp shift that reflects how China ...

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo… ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the ...