Nearly half of the world’s heavy rare earths come from Myanmar’s conflict-ridden Kachin State, where China maintains access ...

While the area has traditionally been renowned for livestock, today the region embodies the stranglehold that China has over ...

MP Materials has announced plans to expand rare earth mining and processing operations as Washington seeks to end its ...

Not only do we get coal here, we are going to get those rare earth elements that are going to break our dependence on China,” ...

The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...

The continent wants to reduce the risks of depending so heavily on China for the valuable minerals. The question is how.

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

Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have ...

Nintendo’s Switch 2 videogame machine uses a rare-earth magnet to attach its hand-held controllers to the main console, ...

The deal would see the Defense Department take a 15% stake in MP Materials and spend billions of dollars investing in the ...

A diplomatic breakthrough with China is the only short-term fix for easing the shortage of rare-earth magnets, a top ...

China Northern Rare Earth and Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union — two of China's top rare earth producers — announced a price ...