You may not know what neodymium is (or even how to pronounce it). But you have plenty of it in your home....

Britain’s last operational tin mine, South Crofty, has been sitting dormant in Cornwall for nearly 30 years. But now the historic site may be revived thanks to an unlikely benefactor: Donald Trump....

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WELCOME TO GLOBAL SECURITY. We’re diving deep into Canada’s defense tech and venture capital moment, Europe’s joint fighter fracas and why the Pentagon made a major deal for zinc....

Gabbro is an unremarkable rock, so cheap and abundant it is used for gravel and building roads. It may also be part of how America breaks its dependence on China’s critical minerals....

Failure of one Western company to build China-free rare-earths supply is a glimpse at how Beijing has come to dominate the critical minerals...

Vulcan Elements, a Durham-based startup manufacturing rare-earth magnets, says it plans to hire around 1,000 workers at a new $1 billion factory in the town of Benson in Johnston County....

The minerals security expert argues that early U.S. efforts to dent China’s rare earth dominance are paying off — but warns the road ahead is long....

Look under almost every element of President Trump's second-term foreign policy — from the trade war with China, to peace in Ukraine, to annexing Greenland — and you'll find critical minerals....

Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called critical minerals a key priority as he hosted the leaders of five Central Asian nations at the White House, emphasizing his administration's efforts to expand and secure U.S. supply chains through new global agreements....

European governments are racing to rearm their militaries as they face up to a more aggressive Russia and an increasingly isolationist America. But that push must overcome a formidable roadblock in the shape of China’s restrictions on critical minerals....

Q- Panama’s Supreme Court on Oct. 15 rejected for the second time a lawsuit challenging a 2023 moratorium on metallic mining, constraining the administration of President José Raúl Mulino’s legal avenues to reopen the Cobre Panamá mine. Economy and Finance Minister Felipe Chapman has stipulated that any agreement to reopen the mine must state clearly that Panama is the legal owner of the land and resources and has reallocated funds toward social spending in the revised 2026 budget. What options does the Mulino administration have left to legally reopen the mine after the court’s latest ruling? What are the risks of reigniting protests or political backlash if the mine is ultimately reopened? Could potential efforts to link mining revenue to social spending help shift public opinion? ...