The watershed moment came in July when the federal government became the largest shareholder of MP Materials, a California miner of rare earth elements for the oft-overlooked but critical magnets that ...

The contracts are the latest sign of how Europe is lagging the United States in the race to break China’s chokehold on rare earths. By Liz Alderman Liz Alderman, who covers the European economy and ...

The bargain that President Donald Trump struck this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping eliminates U.S. worries about obtaining from China the essential rare earth minerals needed to operate an ...

Will nostalgia lead to more collecting, driving up the value of rare pennies? Or will some people rush to unload their ...

The U.S. could be 100% bereft of “rare earths” while at war with and embargoed by rare earth rich China, but we’d still have all the rare earths we want stateside, and as though they were all sourced ...

China will "effectively eliminate" all existing and proposed rare earth and critical mineral export controls and will end investigations into U.S. chipmakers and other major companies, the Trump ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --China's Commerce Ministry announced Sunday that it would suspend a ban on the export of some rare earth metals to the United States as trade tensions ease. The affected metals include ...

The federal government is taking an ownership stake in a Research Triangle Park company as part of a $1.4 billion deal aimed at strengthening the nation’s domestic supply of rare-earth magnets. The ...

The global contest for rare earth minerals has entered a new, more urgent phase. China continues to leverage its near-monopoly on processing through export controls, even as it signals a temporary ...

The summit bought a year of time to combat China’s rare earth dominance. India is best positioned to take advantage. The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at ...

China will effectively suspend implementation of additional export controls on rare earth metals and terminate investigations targeting U.S. companies in the semiconductor supply chain, the White ...