Von der Leyen visits Japan for two days starting Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold a summit with von ...

Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, up $200 billion year to date.

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

While rare earth mineral trading generates modest revenue, their strategic value far outweighs market price as governments ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...

Japan will try to mine the seabed in its Exclusive Economic Zone. Like the United States, India and Australia, Japan wants to ...

Japan is set to begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island in early 2026, according to a Reutersreport.

As rare earth magnet shortages threaten India’s EV and defence sectors, a little-known state-run firm, 75 years old, is ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare earth mine in 70 years.