China said on Thursday that it would strengthen the competitiveness of its dominant rare earths industry in the next five years, according to its 15th Five-Year Plan. The world’s largest producer of ...

USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) has taken investors on a wild ride since its market debut. The company went public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in March 2025.

Dr. Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.” Over the past 15 years, it has often been said that China has a stranglehold on global supplies of ...

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Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission, the government said Monday, as it seeks to curb dependence on China for ...

Rare earth stocks are surging as U.S. policy shifts and China asserts itself. While the U.S. is heavily funding domestic mining and processing to secure critical supply chains for EVs, defense, and ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he reached a framework for a deal with NATO over the future of Greenland that will include rights to rare-earth minerals. “They’re going to be involved in ...

China has banned exports of dual-use items, including rare earths, to Japan, in retaliation for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments linking Taiwan’s security to Japan’s survival. Japan is highly ...

Tokyo is concerned at signs that Beijing may be laying the groundwork to restrict access to the metals vital to manufacturing. By River Akira Davis Reporting from Tokyo Coded threats from China that ...

Europe is trying to get itself on the global rare-earths map, and a new facility on Russia’s border is its opening bid.

People are already turning to AI to answer questions, compare products, and make decisions in seconds. That shift exposes a fundamental problem: the web’s underlying structure was never built for ...