The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing electric fields could make this mining more sustainable ...

This effort is part of Chile's strategy to capitalise on its vast reserves of tailings, estimated at nearly 800 across the ...

China has a chokehold on the world’s supply of critical minerals – and experts are warning the situation is major risk to US ...

Rare earths, a group of 17 metallic elements including the lanthanides and yttrium, are relatively plentiful in the earth’s crust. But they are typically quite dispersed and not found in high enough ...

BEIJING - Prices of rare earth minerals are likely to stabilise in 2025 after a two-year downturn, as China slows mining output to protect domestic producers and growing demand from electric ...

But about 40 years ago, China made a strategic effort to mine and process rare-earth elements, which its leaders ... U.S. companies outsourced mining and processing to China, where costs were ...

And, unlike rare-earth mining on land, deep-sea rare-earth muds don’t contain high levels of radioactive material. An investigation in Minamitorishima (see Maps of rare minerals in mud ...

The University of Texas at Arlington has been awarded a $1.3 million grant to develop a more efficient process for sourcing ...

Plus, much of the mining and refining of rare earths ... is working on facilities in Texas that will process both light and heavy rare-earth elements – a designation based on where the elements ...