Beijing’s 91% grip on materials vital to defence and electric vehicles is down to its scale, but also its lead in processing.

The $400 million investment will create a domestic supply chain for materials used in fighter jets and missiles.

In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end ...

MP Materials has announced plans to expand rare earth mining and processing operations as Washington seeks to end its ...

The European Parliament condemned China on Thursday over its export restrictions on rare earths and insisted the European ...

The deal would see the Defense Department take a 15% stake in MP Materials and spend billions of dollars investing in the ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in April the Trump administration was considering equity investments in critical mineral ...

Following talks with the US thought to include reductions in critical mineral export restrictions, China reports 60 per cent ...

Beijing curbed rare earth and magnet exports in April in retaliation against U.S. tariffs, driving down magnet makers' ...

In May, Chinese exports of certain related products, such as rare-earth magnets used in technologies from jet fighters to ...

China has leveraged its dominance over rare earths for Nvidia chips; however, this expert says world isn't decoupling, it is ...

China, the biggest holder of rare earths, is weaponising them by restricting the supply. Though it has hit the EV industry in ...