22+ hour, 37+ min ago   (227+ words) For rare earths and critical minerals, that matters. Mining, separation, metals, and magnet supply chains frequently cross jurisdictions, involve state-owned enterprises, and depend on agents, joint ventures, and government permits. Rare earth competition is increasingly ecosystem versus ecosystem—and law…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (346+ words) Source: ResearchGate: Paul H G M Dirks (opens in a new tab) Back to Reuters' Andy Home—he is right that Africa has become a front line in the contest for critical minerals. But describing the West as simply "vying…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (137+ words) That distinction is crucial. Shipping rare-earth-bearing material is not the same as possessing a commercially proven rare-earth industry. Pakistan's real opportunity may therefore be geopolitical optionality: use its location, CPEC infrastructure, and relationships with both China and the United States…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (414+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges China Reports 4.7% Growth as Industrial Output Surges: "Strong Supply, Weak Demand" Reveals the Hidden Crisis - China's GDP grew 4.7% in H1 2026, with high-tech manufacturing up 13.3% and exports surging 13.4%, but domestic retail sales rose only 2.7%. - Economist Wang Yiming acknowledges a…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (213+ words) The significance is not another permit. It is the change in Goschen’s risk profile. For years, Goschen carried the familiar junior-miner stack: resource risk, permitting risk, financing risk, offtake risk, and execution risk. The first two have now been substantially…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (362+ words) Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium Rare Earth Exchanges Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium - USGS ranks lutetium third among 84 minerals by U.S. supply-disruption risk, with a $2.059 billion annual…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges European Advanced Materials Report Exposes Scale-Up Gap as China Maintains Industrial Lead - Europe has strong research and patents but lacks industrial scale, capital deployment, and midstream processing capacity to compete with China. - China holds a two-decade lead…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (346+ words) rareearthexchanges.com Circular Materials Turns Industrial Wastewater Into a Critical-Metals Mine - Circular Materials deploys SWaP (Supercritical Water Precipitation) technology to recover critical metals from industrial wastewater at precipitation rates exceeding 99.9%. - Europe loses an estimated 12,000–15,000 tonnes of mixed critical metals annually…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) rareearthexchanges.com Japan's Takaichi Seeks China Dialogue as Rare Earth Restrictions Bite - China has restricted rare earth exports to Japan including yttrium, terbium, gallium, and dysprosium following diplomatic tensions over Taiwan comments. - China controls roughly 90% of global rare earth refining…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (335+ words) The biggest lesson for critical-mineral markets is simple: geology does not equal supply. Finding neodymium, dysprosium, platinum or nickel in an asteroid does not make it ready to use. The material must still be mined, concentrated, separated, refined and turned…...