11+ hour, 45+ min ago   (346+ words) Source: ResearchGate: Paul H G M Dirks (opens in a new tab) Back to Reuters' Andy Home—he is right that Africa has become a front line in the contest for critical minerals. But describing the West as simply "vying…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (137+ words) That distinction is crucial. Shipping rare-earth-bearing material is not the same as possessing a commercially proven rare-earth industry. Pakistan's real opportunity may therefore be geopolitical optionality: use its location, CPEC infrastructure, and relationships with both China and the United States…...

5+ day, 17+ min ago   (397+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges China Northern Rare Earth and Tsinghua University Establish Joint Rare Earth Technology Center - Bio-Separation Moves Toward Industrial Scale - China Northern Rare Earth and Tsinghua University formalized a Joint Research Center for New Rare Earth Technologies, inaugurated September…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (268+ words) Malawi could generate US$30 billion in mineral exports from 2026–2040 under the World Bank's base case (opens in a new tab), with annual exports reaching roughly $3 billion by 2034. Rare earths, graphite, rutile, and uranium underpin the opportunity. But investors should distinguish…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (362+ words) Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium Rare Earth Exchanges Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium - USGS ranks lutetium third among 84 minerals by U.S. supply-disruption risk, with a $2.059 billion annual…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (346+ words) rareearthexchanges.com Circular Materials Turns Industrial Wastewater Into a Critical-Metals Mine - Circular Materials deploys SWaP (Supercritical Water Precipitation) technology to recover critical metals from industrial wastewater at precipitation rates exceeding 99.9%. - Europe loses an estimated 12,000–15,000 tonnes of mixed critical metals annually…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (335+ words) The biggest lesson for critical-mineral markets is simple: geology does not equal supply. Finding neodymium, dysprosium, platinum or nickel in an asteroid does not make it ready to use. The material must still be mined, concentrated, separated, refined and turned…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (249+ words) This is important—but it is not yet a commercial rare-earth separation breakthrough. The pilot takes Dong Pao ore through flotation and hydrometallurgy to produce a mixed TREO product above 95%. It does not demonstrate commercial production of individually separated neodymium,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (412+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Case Western Reserve Targets U.S. Dysprosium-Terbium Metal Production With DOE-Backed Electrolysis - CWRU's patented chloride-based molten-salt electrolysis technology selected under a $10M DOE Critical Materials Innovation Hub initiative to produce dysprosium and terbium metals domestically. - Partners include Energy Fuels and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (167+ words) A text communication with Rare Earth Observer (opens in a new tab) (REO) was inspirational for this article. Western attention is concentrated on NdPr magnets and Dy/Tb. That risks missing yttrium, gadolinium, holmium, lutetium, and europium—plus Er, Tm,…...