Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making their recovery from US sources increasingly viable.
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A re-elected Albanese government will take the unprecedented step of buying or obtaining options over key critical minerals to protect Australia’s national interest.
With the United States and China fighting over access to critical minerals used in tech and defence, Australia finds itself in a unique strategic position.
It’s a ‘very big deal’ says the US president. But will it bring peace and security to Ukraine?
Ancient volcanoes in New South Wales created a rich deposit of precious rare earths – and left clues for finding more.
Rare earth elements aren’t necessarily rare – they’re just difficult to find in economically viable deposits.
The Biden Administration’s signature climate legislation is unleashing a wave of clean energy investment, along with some opportunities and risks for countries like Australia.
A new geochemical discovery could lead to a cleaner way to extract the rare earth elements needed for the transition to renewable energy.
Iron fights anemia. Bismuth relieves gastric problems. Lithium acts against depression and gold can treat rheumatoid arthritis. Metals are precious tools for good health.
The Trump administration is supporting new mines in Alaska and Minnesota that many opponents say could devastate sensitive areas around them.
To become an attractive prospect for electric car manufacturers, the UK needs to sort out its supplies of rare earths – Brexit, or no Brexit.
More electric vehicles and renewable energy means more mining for resources. Unless industry adopts cleaner habits urgently, the environment faces more damage.
Questions about supplies of rare-earth elements, crucial in high-tech devices, pushed researchers to look to industrial waste for new sources of the key materials.
It’s not easy to get all those metals out of the ground.
A geologist explains the basics about these elements, which are crucial for modern electronics.
Electric cars and smartphones have created growing demand – and volatile prices – for once obscure metals.
The fossil fuel era won’t last forever. And a new set of countries will find their reserves of lithium, copper and rare earth metals are in high demand.
Siberia’s red river reminds us that mining for minerals and metals can still compromise the environment.
The magnetic group of rare earths, used in the production of powerful magnets, will be a driver for the market into the future.
This week a dozen protesters travelled from Malaysia to Australia to protest outside the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Lynas Corporation, an Australian rare earth mining company, for the third year running…
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