Explore the high-stakes world of rare earth mining with Skillings. This category covers the exploration, production, and processing of critical elements like neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium—essential to defense, clean energy, and electronics. We report on China’s dominance, U.S. and EU supply chain diversification, refining challenges, and investment flows. Whether you’re a policymaker, investor, or tech manufacturer, this section offers strategic insights into how rare earths shape the future of geopolitics and innovation.
China's dominance of rare earths extends far beyond mining and refining. It is strongest at the downstream end of the supply chain, where rare earth materials…
Critical-minerals operators are increasingly expected to prove where material was extracted, processed, handled and sold before buyers, lenders or customs authorities will accept it. By Charles…
By Charles Pitts China Rare Earth Group is in talks to acquire Shenghe Resources, a transaction that could place Shenghe’s roughly 3% stake in MP Materials…
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is putting another A$8.7 million behind copper exploration in Canada, taking a proposed 13.5% stake in White Cliff Minerals and adding a…
China Rare Earth Group is in talks to acquire Shenghe Resources, potentially placing Shenghe’s stake in MP Materials under Chinese state control. By Penny Langford China…
China Rare Earth Group is reportedly in talks to take control of Shenghe Resources, bringing its international rare-earth interests and minority stake in MP Materials into…
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute-led research team is combining biology, artificial intelligence and materials science to investigate whether rare earth elements and other critical minerals trapped in…
Deccan Gold Mines has been reported as targeting approximately 700–750 kg of annual gold production from Jonnagiri by FY28, although management guidance has also cited a…
Iran is using the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to advance rare-earth exploration, with Bafq-Saghand and Esfordi offering distinct geological and processing opportunities.
DOE has launched a $16 million Planning Prize to help U.S. universities expand the mining and critical-minerals workforce as the country faces a shortage of mining…
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