A new economic map is being drawn. China’s dominance of mineral processing has triggered a global race to build alternative supply chains. The Gulf enters that contest with formidable cards: sovereign ...
American Rare Earths Ltd. (ASX: ARR; OTCQX: ARRNF) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with U.S. metallurgy specialist Novex LLC to convert separated rare-earth oxides from Wyoming's ...
China's robot industry is accelerating. At the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology reported first-half industry revenue of RMB165.5 billion ($23 ...
Indonesia wants another nickel-style downstream success story, this time in rare earths. Yet The Jakarta Post reports a harder reality: more than 100 mineral shipments were delayed in July under ...
GAO describes battery recycling technology as mature and says it could begin reducing imports of lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper within 2–3 years. That is plausible—but highly conditional.
China's critical-minerals advantage is usually described as vertical integration: mine, separate, refine, make metals, manufacture magnets and feed them into enormous downstream industries. That is ...
The People’s Bank of China appointed Deutsche Bank (opens in a new tab) (NYSE: DB) Europe’s first foreign renminbi clearing bank on August 10, 2026, creating a direct Frankfurt bridge into China’s ...
Noble delivers a striking comparison: the United States graduates roughly 200 mining and minerals engineers annually, while China may graduate more than 10,000. The gap compounds over decades, ...
The implications extend well beyond shipping. Companies operating through China-linked rare-earth and critical-mineral supply chains must increasingly reconcile Western sanctions and export controls ...
China’s Rare Earth Price Index equaled 263.6 on August 6, 2026, against a 2010 base of 100. Domestic Chinese references placed magnet-critical NdPr mixed oxide at RMB 725.4–745.4/kg (US$108.81–111.81) ...
This is the paper's most important lesson. China's advantage grows as the supply chain moves downstream. Joo estimates concentration at roughly Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) 5,000 for mining but ...
Washington isn't simply asking which critical-mineral projects need money. It is asking whether they can actually become businesses. A Version 1.0 U.S. Department of Energy guide (opens in a new tab) ...
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