Trump’s push to break that chokepoint is lifting rare-earths startups. Phoenix Tailings, a startup focused on recycling ...

China’s control over rare earth elements did not happen overnight. It is the result of decades of investment across every stage of the chain — from mining and reserves to processing and technology — ...

China's rare earth exports in 2025 hit the highest level since at least 2014, even as Beijing began restricting shipments of ...

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets by developing new mining projects?

Remember when those 17 metallic elements were just a part of the periodic table your chemistry teacher barely mentioned? Now, they’re the key players in global politics. China makes 85% of the world’s ...

The United States imports nearly 80% of the rare earth elements it uses in the production of critical electronics. That has made securing mining rights and import agreements a hot political topic. NBC ...

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 ...

The waste left over from spent fossil fuel may contain a treasure trove of rare-earth elements worth billions of dollars. In a 2024 paper, geologists calculated that the waste ash from coal burnt in ...

A bunch of materials called rare earth elements (REE) that are crucial for producing a vast range of tech products – from electric cars to smartphones to wind turbines – typically require destructive ...

A "breakthrough" discovery about the fern species Blechnum orientale could help to ease the rare earth element (REE) crisis and pave the way for a “green” extraction process for the metals. While the ...