Inside China’s Six-Decade Campaign to Dominate Rare Earths

From Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, generations of Communist Party bosses and military leaders invested in a strategic but ...

Every mineral is critical in the new metals age

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) updated critical minerals list now encompasses 60 different materials, representing ...

Meet a U.S. Start-Up Trying to Break China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly

Companies like Phoenix Tailings, which recently began producing metal in New Hampshire, are using new processing methods to ...

Australia’s Buried Treasure: Rare Rocks Reveal Origins of a Critical Metal

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early ...