Indonesia wants another nickel-style downstream success story, this time in rare earths. Yet The Jakarta Post reports a harder reality: more than 100 mineral shipments were delayed in July under ...

GAO describes battery recycling technology as mature and says it could begin reducing imports of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper within 2–3 years. That is plausible—but highly conditional.

China's robot industry is accelerating. At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported first-half industry revenue of RMB165.5 billion ($23 ...

China has established a commanding lead in the production of rare earth permanent magnets – chiefly neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) and samarium-cobalt (SmCo) magnets. These are critical materials for ...

The report integrates government data, industry metrics, and cross-regional policy analysis to map the extent to which Chinese materials are embedded in global manufacturing. It tracks export volumes, ...

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 ...

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.

The United States faces a critical bottleneck in rare earth element (REE) separation and refining – a chokepoint that China overwhelmingly controls. Rare earths (a group of 17 elements) are essential ...

In 2025, rare earths stopped being a niche “materials story” and became a full-spectrum industrial race. President Trump’s administration, while we suggest it needs to do far more to accelerate the ex ...

If you're reading this on a smartphone, you're holding a piece of the rare earth puzzle—literally. Neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium are what make your devices smart (mostly), your EV motors spin, ...

Gallium and germanium are small-volume, high-consequence materials. Neither is usually mined for its own sake. Both are recovered mainly as byproducts of larger industrial systems, which is why their ...