Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

China is retaliating against U.S. tariffs by restricting exports of rare earth minerals. Minerals expert Gracelin Baskaran ...

Rare earths, on the other hand, have narrower supply chains and are often more difficult to extract, requiring more ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

China mines and exports many of the world's critical minerals, including rare earth deposits, and earlier this month slapped export restrictions on several rare earth elements after a series of ...

China’s decision to suspend exports of rare earth minerals highlights a significant national security vulnerability that cannot be addressed by executive power alone. Three decades ago ...

Rare earth minerals aren't rare ... So they take the actual rare earths out of the rest of the rock in China, which makes the rest of the world highly vulnerable to any restrictions that they ...