China is blocking exports of these vital minerals. What makes them so special?

Rare earths are a group of 17 elements that are more abundant than gold and ... In late 2023, Beijing imposed a ban on rare earth extraction and separation technologies. Beijing has also curbed ...

China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

China's latest export restrictions on Scandium and Dysprosium threaten to disrupt global supply chains for major tech players ...

There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides ... occur separately from each other in nature. Aside from that, separation is tricky — before modern methods were available ...

For the first time, scientists have characterized a promethium coordination complex, advancing the understanding of ...

By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who has covered the rare earth metals industry since 2009 ... with 15 times the magnetic force per cubic inch of volume as a conventional iron magnet.

A man works at a rare earth metals mine in China's Jiangxi province ... “Critically, the separation of heavy rare earths from the light rare earths is where China has a dominance, and therefore ...

A research team led by Prof. LIU Gang from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has achieved a breakthrough in photocatalytic water splitting by developing a ...

Prodigious siblings can be annoying. All too often, they steal the spotlight and cast behind them an infuriating shadow of ...

Mining rare earth elements is fairly straightforward but ... the ore is first ground up using crushers and rotating grinding mills, magnetic separation and flotation gives the lowest-value ...