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Rare earths

  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    A geopolitical conflict over minerals may finally be a real threat

    The latest set of Chinese restrictions on rare earths exports are the most worrying to date

    Rare-earth mine in Bayan Obo a mining town in Inner Mongolia in China.
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    Global supply chains threatened by lack of Chinese rare earths

    Licensing delays under new regime put at risk shipments of materials crucial for products from EVs to fighter jets

    A rare earth mining operation in China
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Markets InsightZornitsa Todorova
    If the US wants more rare earths, it needs to tackle refining

    China has an unmatched dominance in the processing of critical commodities

    Environmental experts of CDM Engineering Ukraine test the groundwater level at the Polokhivske lithium deposit
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    US military leaders wade into fight over tax breaks for critical minerals

    Fight is underscoring scrambled political alliances surrounding Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act

    A worker at a Standard Lithium plant in Arkansas, United States
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Donald Trump orders speedier permits for deep-sea mineral projects

    US president’s move is part of effort to bolster supply of critical resources

    A deep sea mining vessel
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    ExplainerIndustrial metals
    How critical minerals became a flash point in US-China trade war

    Beijing’s response to Donald Trump’s tariffs intensifies battle to control supply of commodities vital to high-tech sectors

    Montage of rare earths, an aeroplane, windmills and mechanical equipment
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    China’s rare earths controls prompt fears of auto shortages and shutdowns

    Traders and executives warn of limited inventories and a risk of disruption to automotive production

    A bulldozer is seen moving earth at a mine, surrounded by numerous mounds of excavated material
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    US rare earth champion faces trade war test after tariffs halt China sales

    MP Materials has been sending concentrates to Chinese partner as it races to expand in US

    MP Materials rare earth open-pit mine in Mountain Pass, California
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Australian miners benefit from new Chinese restrictions on rare earth exports

    Sector ‘ideally positioned’ to take advantage of disruption to global supply chain

    A montage of Chinese and Australian flags in front of an Australian mine
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    Belfast magnet recycling start-up offers rare earth promise

    Ionic Technologies says it is the only company outside China able to separate the four most valuable oxides

    A sample of neodymium, extracted from recycled magnets, is prepared for analysis by a woman in a laboratory
  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    Explainer
    Why rare earths matter to Trump and the west

    China dominates market in metals used in range of products, including those crucial for national security

    A montage of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump and a drag-line excavator mines rare earth materials in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine
  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    Europe Express
    Zelenskyy aims for a ceasefire with Trump before discussing peace Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why the EU shouldn’t let itself be bullied on tech regulation

    Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    ExplainerWar in Ukraine
    The Ukrainian mineral riches in Trump’s sights

    Vast estimated deposits of lithium, titanium and rare earths such as scandium have yet to be significantly developed

    An FT montage of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2025
    The start-ups seeking to challenge China’s stranglehold on rare minerals

    Companies say recycling electric waste can provide a new independent source of the sought after elements

    Workers at HyProMag load a rotating drum inside the cylinder with up to a tonne of waste then shut two airtight doors and pump the cylinder full of pure hydrogen
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Trump wants Ukrainian rare earths deal in return for US military support

    US proposal appears to align with President Zelenskyy’s strategy to keep Washington onside

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to US President Donald Trump during a meeting in New York
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    #techAsia
    DeepSeek’s deep impact and Australia’s mineral conundrum Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    The logo of DeepSeek is displayed on a computer monitor
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    Beijing-backed lending boosts China’s dominance in clean energy minerals

    Entities loaned billions to create mining and processing supply chain, report shows

    Employees overlook an ore processing pool at the Novo Cerrovo open pit copper mine in Serbia, operated by Zijin Mining Group
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Greenland
    Greenland mining minister warns of ‘devastating’ Trump effect

    Naaja Nathanielsen says US president-elect’s rhetoric could damage island’s image as stable democracy

    A worker checks stones after an explosion at an exploration site close to a fjord in Greenland
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Mining
    Australia boosts loan for rare-earths refinery in bid to break China’s dominance

    Government increases backing for Iluka Resources to build country’s first processing facility for rare earths

    Earth movers travel through the pit of an Iluka Resources mineral sands mine in Douglas, north of Hamilton, Australia
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Energy Source
    US-led Minerals Security Partnership backs new rare earths project in Brazil Premium content

    The coalition is the west’s answer to China’s control of minerals that are critical to the energy transition

    samples of rock and ore pulled from a  mine
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Canada opens new critical minerals hub in push to end China’s dominance

    Saskatchewan facility marks small step in drive to challenge Beijing’s control of processing rare earths

    Molten rare earth elements being processed at the Rare Earth Processing Facility in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Lex
    Global supply chains can’t skirt China rare earths crackdown Premium content

    Long-term shortage of rare metal antimony, a critical material in the defence supply chain, could pose security risk

    A production line inspection being carried out on solar cells
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Australia orders Chinese-linked funds to sell rare-earth stakes in ‘national interest’

    Canberra is trying to create stronger supply chain for critical minerals in the energy transition

    Aerial view of Northern Minerals’ Browns Range rare-earths mining project in Western Australia
  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    The rare earths mine becoming a bellwether for US minerals policy

    Future of South Africa’s Phalaborwa site may depend on strength of Washington’s support

    Workers for Rainbow Rare Earths hosing a gypsum stack with water
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Mining billionaire Rinehart builds rare-earth stakes in push for non-Chinese supply

    Australian investor seen as possible kingmaker after merger talks fail between two critical-mineral developers

    Gina Rinehart
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