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America's only rare earths mine has fielded calls from anxious companies since China responded to President Donald Trump's tariffs by limiting exports of seven heavy metals

America's only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump's tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applic…

China's new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.

China announced it would retaliate against the Trump administration's tariffs by applying a 34% levy on U.S. goods.

China announced a 34% tariff on all U.S. imports on Friday, escalating trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies.

Let's see if it works.

Atoms may not have bones, but we still want to know how they are put together.

A team of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and others, led by Ohio University Professor of Physics, and Argonne National Laboratory scientist, Saw Wai Hla, have taken the world's first X-ray SIGNAL (or SIGNATURE) of just one atom. This groundbreaking achievement could revolutionize the way scientists detect the materials.

Earlier this week, the Japanese government announced a AUD 200 million ($134.7 million) investment in Lynas Rare Earths, an Australian mining company. Japan aims to lessen its reliance on China, which currently accounts for the vast majority of global production of rare earth metals.

A new study investigates a novel process for lessening the negative environmental impact of coal mine drainage and extracting rare-earth elements from it, precious minerals needed to manufacture many high-tech devices.

Mountain Pass sits at the center of America's plan to rival China's iron grip on critical rare earth elements used in advanced commercial and military technology.

Current methods to extract key ingredients for green technologies require polluting chemicals

The sample taken from carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu and brought back to Earth by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft contains outer Solar System-derived materials uncontaminated by terrestrial processes. Even CI carbonaceous chondrites, despite their closeness to solar abundances, are not pristine.

As physicists delve deeper into the quantum realm, they are discovering an infinitesimally small world composed of a strange and surprising array of links, knots and winding. Some quantum materials exhibit magnetic whirls called skyrmions—unique configurations described as "subatomic hurricanes." Others host a form of superconductivity that twists into vortices.

MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 (IPS) - The debate in Mexico and at an international level is focused on certain minerals that are fundamental to the energy transition, such as cobalt, lithium and nickel. But there are other indispensable minerals that remain in the background.

As China imposes rare earths export controls, the U.S. is unable to make up the shortfall, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China's stranglehold on the market?

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have prepared an organometallic complex from 0.3 milligrams of berkelium-249.

Rare earth elements (REEs) are key materials for the development of renewable energy devices such as high-power magnets for wind turbines, electric vehicles, or fuel cells for hydrogen generation, aiming to fulfill the objectives of the European Green Deal for a carbon-neutral economy. The increased demand for REEs and their criticality strongly require the improvement of their extraction technologies from primary…

China dominates production of the crucial metals, and wind companies are scouring the globe for more sources.