When the Trump administration issued an executive order in April 2025 calling for accelerated development of seabed mineral resources, it identified three distinct geographic areas as targets. That three-part framing…
China's export cutoff has left Japan months from running out of a metal that coats jet engines and chipmaking equipment. US defense contractors are exposed because…
Global lithium demand will more than triple between now and 2050, requiring the equivalent of 134 new mines and more than $100 billion in investment before…
Phoenix Tailings announced on Tuesday that it will build a $375 million rare earth separation facility in Rochester, New York. The plant, called Freedom Separation, would…
One year ago today, President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed the United States-Australia Critical Minerals Framework at the White House. The agreement…
The United States has taken its first physical delivery of copper into Project Vault. The $12 billion strategic minerals reserve launched at the White House in…
The United States and Myanmar’s military-backed government met in Tokyo last week for the second time in a month, according to three people with knowledge of…
A Santiago-based consultancy has drawn a distinction that most critical-mineral forecasts miss. Scarcity and fragility are not the same problem. They do not always affect the…
Federal policy and new technologies could unlock valuable minerals from mining waste. However, poor site data, environmental risks and high processing costs remain major obstacles. The…
Malaysia’s established processing operations and emerging separation and magnet projects are attracting US interest. The challenge now is to turn exploratory discussions into commercially viable projects.…
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