Lynas Secures $110/kg Rare‑Earth Price Floor with U.S. Defense Department Amid China Export Controls

Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock

As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all.

Scientists Create Powerful New Form of Aluminum That Could Replace Rare Earth Metals

Researchers have uncovered an unusual new form of aluminium that challenges long-held assumptions about how this common metal behaves. Researchers at King’s College London have identified an unusual new form of aluminum, one of the most abundant metals in Earth’s crust. The discovery points to a

Rare-Earth-Free Magnets With High Entropy Borides

Although most of us simultaneously accept the premise that magnets are quite literally everywhere and that few people know how they work, a major problem with magnets today is that they tend to rel…

Virus-Based Thermoresponsive Separation Of Rare-Earth Elements

Although rare-earth elements (REEs) are not very rare, their recovery and purification is very cumbersome, with no significant concentrations that would help with mining. This does contribute to li…

In Myanmar, illicit rare-earth mining is taking a heavy toll

Uncontrolled mining in areas of Myanmar ruled by powerful ethnic armies has boomed.