1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (322+ words) The question I am asking is straightforward: As China approaches its November deadline to continue or terminate the temporary reprieve on exports of critical metals and materials to the United States, what would either decision mean for the economies of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (482+ words) The United States Geological Survey classifies fluorspar as a critical mineral. The United States is also wholly dependent on foreign sources for its fluorspar supply. Those two facts are enough to generate political speeches, government grants, and enthusiastic headlines about…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (247+ words) Australia is approaching a defining moment in its modern industrial history. For more than a century, Australia has prospered by exporting raw materials. Wool, iron ore, coal, natural gas, bauxite, nickel, lithium and now rare earths have all generated enormous…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (215+ words) Her final recommendation was equally important. The West will not surpass China simply by attempting to reproduce, several decades late, everything China already does well. It must restore innovation and find methods that are more efficient, more economic and better…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (233+ words) That distinction is the beginning of graphite economics. It is also the reason that a company announcing a large graphite resource has told us much less than it thinks it has. The question is not merely, “How much carbon is…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (655+ words) There is increasingly a Chinese domestic price, a Chinese export price and an emerging price for material produced and delivered through a non-Chinese—or politically acceptable—supply chain. These prices may be related, but they are no longer necessarily the…...