Rare Earth: Why The U.S. And Europe Must Scale Recycling – Before It’s Too Late

Pentagon Buys Into Rare Earth Miner

“The Defense Department will become the largest shareholder in rare earth miner MP Materials,” CNBC reports. I’m old enough to remember when this was called “socialism.”

The small mining company that won backing from the Pentagon

MP Materials secured investment as Donald Trump sought to counter China and take a new approach to national defence

Rare Earth: Why The U.S. And Europe Must Scale Recycling – Before It’s Too Late

The Pentagon just bought 15% of MP Materials, the owners of the Mountain Pass Rare Earth mine. This is seismic.

The coming rare earths war

If there is a moment of origin for the China shock that has hit the United States, it is events around rare earths in the late summer and early autumn of 2010. That August, China reduced its export quotas for the rest of the year. The following month, it stopped selling rare earths to Japan after the Japanese Coastal Guard detained the captain of a Chinese fishing trawler that had struck one of its vessels in the waters around the territorially-d

In rare earth metals power struggle with China, old laptops, phones may get a new life

As rare earth supply chains are disrupted by tariffs and other trade barriers with China, e-waste recycling is growing as a solution to metals shortages.

America’s Rare-Earth Revival: How MP Materials Is Challenging China’s Dominance

In the arid expanse of Fort Worth, Texas, workers in protective gear labor over vats of molten metal, heated to a blistering 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit, crafting rare-earth metals—a resource the United States has scarcely produced at scale in recent decades. This scene at MP Materials’ factory represents a bold effort to challenge China’s near-total control over the global supply of rare-earth magnets, essential components in everything from elect…