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Global economic upheaval creates ROI for recycling rare earth elements in servers
The move by Western Digital, Microsoft, and their partners is partly environmental, but also geopolitical, with tariffs and ...
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Cyclic Materials to build rare earth recycling facility in Mesa, Arizona
The Canadian company says the $20 million project will be its first global REE recycling operation focused on separating ...
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Will China’s rare earth export rules spur production elsewhere?
New rules requiring firms in China to get a license before exporting some rare earth elements are bolstering plans to ...
Microsoft teams up with Western Digital to extract rare earth oxides from decommissioned datacenter hard drives
Chemical-free recycling supports U.S. supply chains and cuts landfill wasteRecovered materials support electric cars, wind ...
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What are Rare Earth Elements Used For?
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 ...
Seven rare earth metals that China is weaponizing against Trump’s tariffs
As geopolitical and trade tensions rise, China’s dominance of both mining and processing means these niche metals have become ...
U.S.' inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a threat to its defense, warns CSIS
As China imposes rare earths export controls, the U.S. is unable to make up the shortfall, according to the Center for ...
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20% of all the world’s ― 45,000 metric tons per year in this American megamine
The Mountain Pass mine is crucial to the rare earth supply chain, playing a key role in future technology, clean energy, and ...
From military equipment to EVs, how China's halting of rare earth exports could hurt US
China refines 99 per cent of the world’s rare earth magnets and 99.9 per cent of global dysprosium, critical for defence ...