India’s EV drive risks stalling as China tightens grip on rare earth exports

Worldwide, a competition for rare earths and raw materials such as lithium, which are indispensable for future technologies, is unleashing.

NGO bias harms Western access to Africa’s minerals

According to a new report from NGO Monitor, a narrowly controlled group of NGOs exert outside influence on the activities of Western companies in Africa and the resulting dominance of China and Russia in critical mineral markets posing great risk to global supply chains and Western security interests. The NGO

China’s Rare Earth Curbs Have ‘Changed Psychology’ at US Firms

China’s weaponization of rare earths in its trade war with the US will spark a much greater focus on American supply security for critical minerals, according to MP Materials Corp., the only US miner of the key materials used in smartphones and defense applications.

India’s EV drive risks stalling as China tightens grip on rare earth exports

Experts have urged India to explore innovative solutions to skirt the curbs, from e-waste recycling to extracting rare earths from oil wells.

The Rare Earth Wars

Sirens wail every couple of days on the outskirts of Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Citizens immediately stop whatever they’re doing and race to shelters. Their lives might depend on it—explosives are about to detonate in the region’s open-pit copper and cobalt mine. Rocks propelled from these explosions have been known to punch through walls and roofs and sometimes kill people. Local protests stand little chance: the mine…

The race for rare earths

The struggle to obtain rare earth elements is fast becoming a national security issue.