Also in today’s newsletter, China’s Belt and Road Initiative expands, and Trump set to open US retirement market to crypto investments ...

A Guardian dispatch last week from Baotou, China’s rare earth capital, found evidence of toxic ponds, poisoned soil and ...

Japan's $26 billion deep-sea mining project near Minami-Tori-shima, aimed at extracting cobalt and nickel for EV batteries, ...

Stralis Aircraft has secured an agreement with two Japanese universities, following the Queensland Government’s trade mission to Japan.

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such ...

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth ...

The use of REEs in magnets is one of their most significant applications. The magnet basically changes electricity into motion. More motion is possible with stronger magnets. Therefore, a small, ...

The Government of India launched the National Critical Mineral Mission (NCMM) in 2025 to establish a robust framework for self-reliance in the critical mineral sector.

As rare earth magnet shortages threaten India’s EV and defence sectors, a little-known state-run firm, 75 years old, is ...

The company is transforming an 80,000 square-foot building on a former Air Force base into an $80 million plant for rare ...

China has a chokehold on Rare Earth Elements. That is not hyperbole—it is reality. Beijing controls nearly 90 percent of global REE refinement and more than 90 percent of permanent magnet production.

We cannot get any high-power magnets without China,” declared Ford CEO Jim Farley at a June 2025 event, a statement that ...