The Pentagon took a $400mn equity stake in Litinsky’s MP Materials last week and promised to buy its output for nearly 10 years at double the current market price. Apple on Tuesday agreed to a $500mn ...

MP Materials’ goal to become a national rare-earths “champion” that can go toe-to-toe with China was turbocharged by Pentagon ...

Japan's lucrative $26 billion deep-sea find could be rendered worthless after a technological breakthrough. A survey by The Nippon Foundation and the University of Tokyo found a field of dense ...

The US DoD has taken a blowtorch to the critical minerals market with a $US400M equity investment into America’s only ...

America is taking on China in the race to the bottom of the sea, hoping that new mining techniques will help break Beijing’s ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...

Further bolstering domestic priorities, state-run IREL (India) Limited was directed in June 2025 to suspend a 13-year-old ...

Wyoming's first new coal mine in 50 years is said to be operating soon but it won't rely on the fossil fuel to make money.

India has unveiled a Rs 1,345 crore incentive scheme to boost rare-earth magnet manufacturing and cut its 80 per cent import ...

The recent disruption has caused the nation to explore and start building stockpiles of magnets and offering incentives to ...