The Nikkei Digital Edition has launched a new series titled "Conditions for Becoming a Rare Earth Powerhouse." Can Japan build a counterweight to China, which is intimidating the world through the "weaponization of resources"? We have been considering the conditions for Japan to transform into a rare earth powerhouse. Having completed the main series and its special editions, we will now present the continuation of the six-part "Ask the Experts" series that we featured as a preview....

Not so long ago, tattered old maps of Africa’s most remote mining regions would conjure up images of Allan Quatermain cutting his way deep into the jungle in search of King Solomon’s Mines....

WASHINGTON – A U.S. House Democrat is calling out the Trump administration’s deal to buy a stake in Trilogy Metals, the company trying to develop Alaska’s Ambler mining district....

Gallium, germanium shipments drop to zero under new controls....

When President Trump made his first run for the White House more than a decade ago, he derided the Export-Import Bank of the United States as a “featherbedding” corporate welfare scheme....

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....