MP Materials' 10X factory will produce 10,000 tons of rare-earth magnets a year. It may need to get even bigger.

With names like neodymium and dysprosium, rare-earth elements sound exotic — and their perceived scarcity has only added to the mystique. In reality, rare earths aren't that rare, but just difficult ...

Europe is under pressure to keep China sweet in order to maintain supplies of rare earth elements. The region is almost entirely reliant on China for supplies of rare earth magnets, which are used in ...

Rare earth stocks are surging as U.S. policy shifts and China asserts itself. While the U.S. is heavily funding domestic mining and processing to secure critical supply chains for EVs, defense, and ...

February 9, 2026: Last year the United States imposed high tariffs on China in retaliation for theft of intellectual property and unfair trade practices. China responded with, among other things, ...

Rare earth elements are becoming increasingly critical to the development and deployment of next-generation technologies. Limited refining capacity and concentrated supply chains threaten innovation ...

A quiet industrial revolution in Ohio is disrupting China's stranglehold on the U.S. military, seeking to reclaim the "missing link" in the rare earth supply chain to ensure U.S. production of ...

Dr. Klinger is the author of “Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes.” Over the past 15 years, it has often been said that China has a stranglehold on global supplies of ...