The US trade deal with China seeks to resolve a major sticking point of their ongoing trade war: rare-earth minerals.

As Australia races to scale up refining of rare earths, a thorny question looms: where does all the toxic wastewater go?

The contracts are the latest sign of how Europe is lagging the United States in the race to break China’s chokehold on rare ...

A Chinese-led team of scientists has made a world-first discovery, identifying a naturally formed mineral containing rare earth elements (REEs) inside a living plant. The researchers found nanoscale ...

Chinese scientists say they have recovered rare earth minerals from a living plant, a finding researchers believe could be ...

Discover how Phoenix Tailings is revolutionizing rare earth mineral processing in the US with their new facility in Exeter, ...

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

The public-private partnership between the Pentagon and MP Materials aims to triple magnet production capacity amid geopolitical tensions over rare earth supplies.

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs).

China in a recent breakthrough has reportedly achieved the world's first extraction of a naturally formed mineral with rare ...