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Coal tailings could solve United States' need for rare earth elements

Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...
Global Finance Magazine

Breaking China’s Grip On Rare-Earth Elements

Can the rest of the world challenge Beijing’s dominance of high-performance magnets by developing new mining projects?
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3 Rare Earth Stocks Powering America's Critical Minerals Boom

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are not entirely as rare as their name suggests. This group of 17 metals is found across the globe. What makes them special isn’t their scarcity, but their complexity: REEs ...
The Diplomat

Striking While the Iron is Hot: The Global South’s Rare Earth Moment

In early April 2025, China weaponized its rare earth elements (REEs), restricting exports to the United States – and eventually the world – in retaliation for increased U.S. tariffs. This is not the ...
Hackaday

Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation Of Rare-Earth Elements

Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no ...
New Atlas

Common fern found gathering rare earth metals out of the ground

A bunch of materials called rare earth elements (REE) that are crucial for producing a vast range of tech products – from electric cars to smartphones to wind turbines – typically require destructive ...
The Austin Chronicle

UT-Austin Research Bolsters Greener Rare Earth Element Extraction Process

The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine & Processing Facility in the United States in 2022 Credit: photo by Tmy350 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Rare earth elements are a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, ...
Business Wire

ERI and ReElement Technologies Announce Rare Earth Elements Strategic Processing Partnership

FRESNO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ERI, the nation’s leading material resource recovery, ITAD, mobility and data destruction/processing provider and largest recycler ...
NerdWallet

5 Best-Performing Rare Earth Stocks in October

Strategic metals like lithium and neodymium are important to high-tech manufacturing. We're looking at the top rare earth stocks, and why recent U.S.-China tariff drama has moved them. Many, or all, ...
Scientific American

Will We Run Out of Rare Earth Elements?

Seventeen elements of the periodic table have taken on outsize importance because of their use in smartphones, electric vehicles, medical devices, and other technologies. They’re valued for their ...
The Motley Fool

Interested in Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Stocks? You Might Consider Buying This ETF

The long-term supply-demand picture should be favorable for critical minerals and rare-earth elements, which should help boost stock prices of select companies. Mining stocks are particularly risky ...
The Motley Fool

Why Rare-Earth Stock Critical Metals Soared 108% in October

October was a wild, wild month for investors in Critical Metals Group (CRML +25.64%). The mining stock rocketed from single digits at the beginning of the month to an all-time high of $32.15 per share ...