Chinese exports of rare-earth minerals are all but on hold as producers grapple with tighter permit requirements following last week’s new restrictions on the critical materials in an escalating ...

Rare earth minerals and the elements inside them have been the focus of many diplomatic skirmishes. But what do these special materials do and are they as rare as the name suggests? Video by ...

[Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON -- US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will sign a rare earth minerals deal with Ukraine "very shortly." "We are doing good work with Ukraine and Russia.

Rare earth minerals are used in vast array of high-tech ... But Gracelin Baskaran, mining economist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said rare earths aren’t actually ...

China solidified its global dominance in rare earth elements mining with a new discovery ... it would yield about 470,000 tonnes of these strategic minerals, it estimated. The discovery is located ...

One of the main drivers of the U.S. pressure campaign to lock Ukraine into a minerals deal is the Trump administration’s focus on China, which is the world's largest producer of rare earth minerals.

This story is part of the Grist series Unearthed: The Mining ... and rare earth elements, which help power wind turbines. Hover over the gold circles below to see which minerals power modern ...

MINSK, 25 March (BelTA) - Belarus and Russia have discussed the potential of extracting rare-earth minerals from industrial ... technologies and equipment for mining and processing of rare ...

Now, another startup, Earth AI, exclusively told TechCrunch about its own discovery: promising deposits of critical minerals in parts of Australia that other mining outfits had ignored for decades.