The Chinese government has introduced a slew of new measures designed to tighten its grip on lucrative natural resources used in everything from electric cars to wind turbines. In a list released by the country's State Council on …
A UK start-up has used AI (artificial intelligence) to design and create a new rare-earth-free permanent magnet material that, it claims, can be produced at 20% of the cost and with 70% less carbon emissions (measured in CO2/kg) t…
The market for affordable cartridges got slightly hotter this week with Rega announcing a new moving magnet model called the Nd5. We start with the Nd5’s cantilever which protrudes, as usual, from the headshell to ‘read’ the recor…
CONCEPCIÓN, Chile — The churning blast furnaces of shrinking steelworks and the glowing flare stack of an oil refinery mark the aging industrial landscape around Concepción in southern Chile. Not long ago, a historic ceramics fact…
In a first, Canada has blocked the sale of stockpiled rare earth elements mined in the far north to a Chinese corporation that dominates the field, a senior government official divulged Tuesday. However, more similar interventions…
According to an SMM survey, domestic NdFeB output declined in May, with output decreasing by 12% MoM. Subsequent orders were insufficient, with a strong bearish sentiment in the market. A sales leader at a large magnetic material …