The Trump administration has heard competing proposals that would significantly alter longstanding U.S. policy toward Myanmar ...

Additionally, the Department of Defense has agreed to purchase a $400 million equity stake in rare-earth miner MP Materials, ...

Donald Trump is pushing the U.S. government deeper into corporate boardrooms, taking direct ownership stakes and executive ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth metals powering our digital and green future.

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

When China restricted rare earth exports to Japan in 2010 during a diplomatic spat, a wild west domestic industry undermined Beijing with rampant smuggling. In a sharp shift that reflects how China ...

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo… ...

The rate earth metals issue shows that it’s time for the United States to treat critical minerals not as commodities, but as instruments of geopolitical power.