The Export-Import Bank is providing a $10 billion loan to Project Vault, an initiative to stockpile critical minerals. The ...

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

There’s a long history of hard rock mining in Southern Colorado. Now the federal government is updating the region’s geological maps to expand the search for critical minerals and rare earth elements.

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

So-called rare earth elements aren’t actually rare. It’s just difficult to refine them into the purified forms that are needed for making things like electronics or clean energy tech. The standard ...

Nagpur based Western Coalfields Limited has made a significant discovery. Eight strategic minerals, including rare earth elements, have been found in six of its mines in Maharashtra. These findings ...

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Three months ago, Ukraine’s president was sitting in the White House’s Oval Office, berated by U.S. President Donald Trump and his vice president for balking at a major deal giving Washington ...

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