At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric cars, medical advances and national defense. Ongoing extraction inside ...

Massively — too much, too late. Likewise, successive administrations have sighed and done nothing regarding the emerging crisis over rare earth metals, whose supply and processing are ...

Investing in rare earth minerals can seem tricky, but there are a variety of rare earth stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) available for metals investors. The rare earth sector may seem ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those ...

From fighter planes to nuclear reactor rods and smartphones, rare earth minerals are vital to a wide array of products. As geopolitical and trade tensions rise, China’s dominance of both mining ...

By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who has covered China’s rare earth industry since 2009, reported from Beijing, Ganzhou and Longnan, China. China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an ...

Investors are slowly waking to the opportunities created by China’s ban on the export of rare earths but a modest uptick in the share prices of non-Chinese miners of the material could be just ...

China’s latest move to counter Donald Trump’s chaotic trade war is to increase restrictions on the supply of key rare earths and high-performance rare earth magnets crucial to US manufacturing ...

China has tightened control over the global rare earth supply by introducing new export restrictions that could disrupt industries dependent on these materials. The latest measures, announced late ...

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar, coupled with existing political unrest, has raised concerns about the reliability of rare earth supplies from the region. New U.S. tariffs, particularly on ...