President Donald Trump's assertion that war-torn Ukraine should supply the US with rare earths is a sign of America's growing ...

The U.S. has imposed a 10% tariff on all Chinese goods, including rare earths, and China has retaliated with export controls ...

China strengthens its dominance in rare earths with a new find in Yunnan, key to technology and defense, impacting global ...

An RFE/RL investigation uncovers how Chinese companies, including state-owned firms, are supplying Russia with critical ...

Using highly sophisticated tactics, rare earths were smuggled from Vietnam to China under the direction of Liu Dehua, a Chinese national, who disguised them as ordinary goods for export. According to ...

The US has only one operating rare earths mine and very little processing capacity, although several companies are working to develop projects in the country. China is the world’s largest ...

China announced sweeping export controls on Tuesday targeting five metals used across defence, clean energy and other ...

coupled with mounting fears of an overreliance on rare earth superpower China, a renewed spotlight is being put on the Arctic as a potential mining hotspot. “The Arctic region has three things ...

China, with whom Trump has threatened a ... on Friday that Russia had occupied about half of Ukraine's rare earth deposits. Mining analysts and economists say that Ukraine has no commercial ...

China has presented itself as a neutral party and mediator since Putin launched the full-scale invasion three years ago.

In recent years, Vietnam has started to mine rare earths on a large scale, but its rare earth production capacity is limited. Currently, Vietnam's rare earth mining is in its early stages ...

Illegal rare earth and iron ore mining operations From 2019 to 2023 ... Between 2018 and October 2023, under Huan’s orders: 348,000 tons of tailings sludge were illegally dumped into the environment.