MEDIA: Rare Earths Critical to a Clean Energy Future
Mining investment news, insights and company profiles by Colin Sandell-Hay, Contributor – July 12, 2022 Rare Earths Critical to a Clean Energy Future There is some confusion among the general public and mainstream media about critical minerals and rare earth minerals. Critical minerals are specific minerals that have been identified – often by governments – as being critical […]
MINING.COM: As demand for rare earths rises, world’s biggest producer might stop exporting them, says analyst
The Baiyun Ebo mine in China’s Inner Mongolia region is the site of almost half the world’s rare earth production. (Image courtesy of NASA.) China, the world’s biggest producer of magnet rare earth oxides could stop exporting the group of minerals within the next decade due to increasing domestic demand and a shortage in global […]
NEWS: China’s stranglehold of the rare earths supply chain will last another decade
Angola, Australia and the US are all poised to ramp up the production of rare earth elements during the next few years, but China is set to continue enjoying an 80% share of the global refining of the vital metals. By Jason Mitchell April 28, 2022 – Investment Monitor Bayan Obo in Inner Mongolia, China, contains […]
CNN.COM: Biden announces new investments in mineral production to address supply chain shortages
President Joe Biden in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Friday, February 18, 2022. (CNN) President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced new investments in the domestic production of minerals and materials crucial to creating a wide array of technological devices, including computers, smartphones, batteries, household appliances and vehicles. The investments, which are […]
ELECTREK.CO: Mineral supply-chain disruptions would have long-range impacts on EVs
Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory published research on how the supply chains of rare earth minerals respond to disruptions. This could include natural disasters, labor or trade disputes, construction delays – and pandemics. The team found that mineral supply chain disruptions have long-range impacts that affect the costs and availability […]
Quartz Media: Japan’s global rare earths quest holds lessons for the US and Europe
In 2010, the Japanese government had a rude wakeup call: Beijing had abruptly cut off all rare earth exports to Japan over a fishing trawler dispute. Tokyo was almost entirely dependent on China for the critical metals, and the embargo exposed this acute vulnerability. The silver lining to this incident, which sent global rare […]
Mining.com: Caught between rare earths and Chinese dominance — Part 1: The story behind everything no one is telling you
The Chinese city of Baotou. (Image by Matthew Stinson) During his first press conference, President Biden vowed that he would not allow China to become the world’s leading country: “That’s not going to happen on my watch, because the United States is going to continue to grow and expand.” What are these large growth […]
Foreign Policy: Why Rare Earths Are the Key to Just About Everything
They’re not actually that rare, but their importance to almost all modern technologies cannot be overstated. When then-U.S. President Donald Trump offered to buy Greenland in 2019, the world thought—or hoped—he was kidding. “It must be an April Fool’s Day joke … but totally out of [season]!” Lars Lokke Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, […]
Investor Intel: Jack Lifton on Rare Earth Supply Chains and Value Chains
Rare earth sector analysts have finally recognized that a project’s place in a total supply chain is very important to its economic viability. Before a junior mining deposit goes into (usually expensive and time consuming) development into a producing mine there must first be an evaluation of what possible product(s) of that mine are […]
BNN Bloomberg: Biden’s Hopes for Rare Earth Independence at Least a Decade Away
(Bloomberg) — Joe Biden’s ambition to make the U.S. less dependent on other nations for rare earths and minerals critical to the clean energy transition will take years to accomplish. A review of the U.S. critical minerals and rare earths supply chain that the president ordered this week is likely to show that even with […]
