Accelerating Transparency, Accuracy, and Insight Across the Rare Earth & Critical Minerals Supply Chain.

Highlights Multi-institutional analysis reveals China controls 90% of rare earth processing and dominant shares of tungsten (80%) and antimony (60%), with 2025-2026 export controls triggering sixfold ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) – the 17 obscure metals vital for electric vehicle motors, wind turbines, smartphones, and defense systems – have quietly become a geopolitical pressure point. When Beijing ...

Highlights China produces approximately 240,000 tons of rare earth permanent magnets in 2023, representing 85-90% of global supply and dwarfing production in Japan, US, and Europe. Rare earth magnets ...

Rare earth elements – the 17 metals critical for technologies from fighter jets and electric vehicles to smartphones and wind turbines – have a pricing system as strategically important as it is ...

Beneath the misty mountains of northern Vietnam and the mineral-rich sands of its central coast lies a largely untapped treasure: some of the world’s most promising rare earth element (REE) deposits.

China controls nearly 90% of global rare earth refining capacity in 2025, including a near-monopoly on heavy rare earth elements (HREEs) like dysprosium and terbium. Through state-led consolidation, ...

Iranian missile strikes on Qatar's Ras Laffan in March 2026 eliminated one-third of global helium supply overnight, doubling spot prices and threatening MRI operations and semiconductor manufacturing ...

Ask which US rare earth companies matter and you get a list of names. That list hides the thing that decides everything: rare earths pass through four separate industrial steps, almost nobody does ...

Highlights U.S. rare earth production increased to 45,000 metric tons in 2024, but remains heavily dependent on foreign imports and refining capabilities. Global rare earth mining surged to 390,000 ...

A recent article in Chemical Engineering explores a groundbreaking development in the field of permanent magnets, focusing on Niron Magnetics' Clean Earth Magnet® technology. This innovation ...

Rare earth recycling becomes ever more crucial in the field of rare earth material products, due to the increasing demand for rare earth elements (REEs) in high-tech industries and the environmental ...