China has implemented new export controls for rare earth minerals and magnets. The changes could upend the shift to electric ...

U.S. rare earths miner MP Materials said on Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia's ...

The rhetoric around decoupling from China in critical minerals is growing louder—but rhetoric alone will not change the ...

Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a ...

At the Berkeley Pit, researchers hope to extract valuable metals to increase U.S. production of rare earths used in electric ...

How do we achieve a clean energy future without destroying ecosystems? That’s the question we’re tackling in this week’s episode of Nature Breaking.

Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making ...

Myanmar is China’s top source of raw rare earth elements. As conflict threatens that supply chain, Beijing is moving more ...

The term 'rare earth' dates to an 18th‑century Swedish mine and survives mainly out of habit. In truth, these 17 metals are ...