China’s control over rare earth elements did not happen overnight. It is the result of decades of investment across every stage of the chain — from mining and reserves to processing and technology — ...

Remember when those 17 metallic elements were just a part of the periodic table your chemistry teacher barely mentioned? Now, they’re the key players in global politics. China makes 85% of the world’s ...

Three of Greenland’s REE-bearing deposits, buried deep beneath the ice, may be among the world’s largest by volume.

The group of rare earth elements (REEs) comprises a total of 17 elements, all of which possess similar chemical properties. In addition to the two lightest elements, scandium and yttrium, the group ...

The US Department of Defence operates the Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland. Built following a 1951 defence ...

The Department of Energy announced this month a Notice of Funding Opportunity for up to $134 million to improve the domestic supply chains for rare earth elements. The funding targets the recovery of ...

The Trump administration is expanding its partnerships with private companies to boost the production of rare earth magnets used in energy and defense applications in an effort to curb the United ...

Scientists have discovered a fern from South China that naturally forms tiny crystals containing rare earth elements (REEs). This breakthrough opens the door to a promising new way of "green mining" ...

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...

Strategic metals like lithium and neodymium are important to high-tech manufacturing. We're looking at the top rare earth stocks, and why recent U.S.-China tariff drama has moved them. Many, or all, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and private investors are partnering with two rare earth startups in a $1.4 billion deal to scale up the nation’s access to materials and technology that is ...

Vulcan said Monday it will build and operate a 10,000-metric-ton magnet production facility in the U.S., while ReElement Technologies scales its recycling and refining of rare earth oxides from end-of ...