Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing ...

China has a chokehold on the world’s supply of critical minerals – and experts are warning the situation is major risk to US ...

which come from leaching agents used in mining, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). “Rare earth elements (REEs), particularly heavy REEs (HREEs), are key enablers of the rapid ...

are primary sources of heavy rare earth elements (HREE), supplying over 90% of the global demand for HREE. However, the current ammonium-salt-based in-situ mining technique has led to severe ...

In a tit-for-tat retaliation for President Biden’s export controls on 24 types of chip manufacturing equipment, high ...

while simultaneously reducing mining time by 70 per cent and cutting electricity use by 60 per cent. China is the world's largest producer of rare earth elements (REEs), accounting for around 70 ...

China has long been the global leader in producing rare earth elements —a group of 17 metals essential for technologies like ...

Mining has joined forces with two of Brazil’s leading government scientific agencies to develop an optimal downstream process ...

Last year, the company established rare earth supply operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo through its wholly owned subsidiary Simba Essential Minerals. Analysts say that while the ...

The technology, which was developed in collaboration with Rice university in Houston, uses an advanced electrothermal process to ... conversion of all 17 rare earth elements into chlorides while ...

This program successfully confirmed historical uranium mineralization while also identifying anomalous values of rare earth elements (REEs), uranium, and other strategic minerals. Phase I was ...