China’s dominance of both mining and processing means these niche metals have become a cudgel to use against opponents.

The Mountain Pass mine is crucial to the rare earth supply chain, playing a key role in future technology, clean energy, and ...

China refines 99 per cent of the world’s rare earth magnets and 99.9 per cent of global dysprosium, critical for defence ...

Vulcan Elements opened its first plant on March 31 in Durham. A few days later, the escalating U.S.-China trade war shoved ...

In response to punitive tariffs imposed by Washington, Beijing earlier this month added seven rare earths to its export ...

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

Long-term restrictions on rare earths by China could affect US’ defence industry and the global supply chains of machine ...

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 ...

In the near term, it's not possible for the U.S. to meet its own needs for the rare earths included under China's export restrictions, said Luisa Moreno, a director at Defense Metals Corp. (CA:DEFN), ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are crucial for technologies like smartphone cameras and defense systems. A select few from the ...

China’s dominance of the rare earths supply chain has emerged as a potent tool in its renewed trade war with the United States. The minerals are used to power everything from iPhones to fighter jets.

There are 17 rare earth elements (REEs) in all — 15 lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium. It's a fairly diverse group, with ...