The United States allowed its rare earth metals industry to move to China and could now face severe economic disruption as ...

The U.S.-China trade truce in Geneva earlier this month hinged on Beijing agreeing to resume crucial mineral exports. Now ...

Trade and industrial policies, while primarily intended to support domestic industries, may unintentionally stimulate technological progress abroad. We document this mechanism in the case of rare ...

An Australian firm's production of a heavy rare earth, a first outside of China, is a "major milestone" in diversifying a ...

On Wednesday, the United States and Ukraine finalized a agreement granting U.S. companies significant access to Ukraine’s critical mineral resources — including rare earth elements ... Rwanda, Norway ...

Barriers are high to development of mines and processing plants for vital metals needed for U.S. competition with China.

But to get to it, the company Rare Earths Norway will have to dig underneath a village of over 2,000 people. How will they do it? This mining project poses significant environmental and logistical ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the Barents Sea. As he peered at a sonar screen, he saw something strange—a ...

Norway's seabed is believed to hold "substantial" resources, including 38 million tonnes of copper and 45 million tonnes of zinc, as well as "significant" volumes of rare earth minerals ...

As a result, western efforts to obtain rare earths through recycling have intensified. Companies such as Solvay in France, REEcycleinc in the US, Norway’s REEtec, HyProMag in the UK, Sweden’s ...

As President Donald Trump works to strike a deal to end the three-year war in Ukraine, an important piece of the negotiations for the president has revolved around accessing rare earth elements ...

Of note within these are rare earth elements (REEs), materials necessary for a range of clean energy technologies including electric vehicles (EVs), batteries and wind turbines. REEs in particular are ...