China has a tight grip on rare-earth elements that are key to electronics, electric vehicles and fighter jets. A mine in Wyoming raises hopes for a domestic supply.

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One of the primary drivers behind the acquisition, backed by the U.S. government, is to disrupt the prevailing Chinese ...

Last week, President Trump postponed a summit with his Chinese counterpart on account of the war with Iran. When Trump and Xi Jinping do meet, here's an agenda item bound to figure prominently: rare ...

China has increasingly incorporated critical minerals and rare earth export controls into its geopolitical coercion toolkit, and portrayed its dominant position in rare earth supply chains as a ...

China’s dominance of rare earth processing has quietly become one of the most consequential chokepoints in the global economy. According to the International Energy Agency, China accounts for about 60 ...

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing's dominance of high-performance magnets, used in everything from consumer electronics to weapon systems, by developing new projects for mining, processing, ...

Rare earth stocks are surging as U.S. policy shifts and China asserts itself. While the U.S. is heavily funding domestic mining and processing to secure critical supply chains for EVs, defense, and ...

At one point in history, one U.S. company monopolized the rare earths industry. Then China took over the industry. Can the U.S. bring it back? Rare earths are critical to making, like, everything.