An industrial city at the centre of the rare earth minerals trade feeding global gadget desire has become so polluted it’s spawned a vast sludge filled five-mile-wide toxic lake.

The U.S. is sitting on a rare earths goldmine — not buried underground, but suspended in toxic wastewater. A long-polluted site in Butte, Montana, could soon become a strategic national asset as ...

What’s more, absent intervention to prevent e-waste from going to landfills, it can contaminate lakes, rivers, and groundwater. And, if rare earths don’t come from China, they may come from ...

While China has a near monopoly on rare earth element processing and refining, it has quietly become reliant on raw materials ...

China has issued a raft of regulations to tighten management of rare earths production, elements that are playing an ever-important role in the global technology race. In a document released on ...

A man works at the site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province Oct. 20, 2010. Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images. These metals only represent a fraction of the capabilities ...

China plans to prohibit non-state companies from mining rare earths, further tightening its control over a strategic sector that has emerged as a battleground in its trade war with the US.

Government agencies will have control over the total amount of rare-earth mining and smelting, the State Council said. Copper $ 4.8015 / lb 0.66% Brent Crude Oil $ 77.47 / bbl -3.17% ...

On a special episode (first released on May 28, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: We need rare earth minerals for use in items we rely on for modern life. New tech holds possibilities for mining at ...

The discovery reinforces China’s world-leading position in the rare earth mining sector. The Asian powerhouse controls roughly 60% of rare earth production and 85% of processing capacity worldwide.

China has issued a raft of regulations to tighten management of rare earths production, elements that are playing an ever-important role in the global technology race. In a document released on ...