Tens of millions of people — more than live in the entire state of Florida — are now exposed to toxic water runoff from metal mining, a new study has found. The report lays bare the devastating impacts that can follow a reckless t…
Rare earth exploration and development company, Pensana, working with Polestar, Route2 and the Universities of Leeds and Hull, has been awarded £316,643 by Innovate UK under its CLIMATES programme. The partnership will work to dev…
The electric motors that power today’s EVs rely on permanent magnets made using rare-earth metals such as neodymium. Rare earths are the 15 elements whose atomic numbers run from 57 to 71, plus yttrium and scandium. They are silve…
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Malaysia will develop a policy to ban exports of rare earth raw materials to avoid exploitation and loss of resources, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday, making it the latest country to …
Scientists use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements. A team of researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-elemen…
BEIJING/HANOI, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Chinese rare earth prices jumped to their highest in 20 months, as mining suspension in major producer Myanmar sparked stockpiling ahead of the peak consumption season, analysts said on Thursday. …