Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth metals powering our digital and green future. Starting in January 2026, Japan ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The Trump administration has also moved to fast-track seabed mining in international waters following ...

Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, ...

Von der Leyen visits Japan for two days starting Tuesday. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will hold a summit with von ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 miles) southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the ...

MP Materials MP and Lynas Rare Earths Limited LYSDY are the leading integrated rare earth producers, supplying critical ...

Decades of process innovation and industrial policy helped China corner the rare earths market while the US fell behind.

Japan is a model to look at. After the 2010 episode, it reduced its dependence on China to 60 per cent of its requirement of magnets ...

The Trump administration is exploring proposals to secure Myanmars rare earth minerals, aiming to reduce U.S. dependence on ...

The U.S. once controlled the market on rare earth elements, sought after for a range of technologies. But in the last few ...

When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...