1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (185+ words) India has already spent years rewriting mining rules to attract capital into lithium, rare earths, and other strategic minerals. The 2023 MMDR changes created a dedicated critical-mineral framework, empowered central auctions, and expanded private exploration. The 2026 reform attacks a different bottleneck:…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (199+ words) Scale explains the moat. China Northern Rare Earth alone budgeted approximately 45,000 tonnes of NdPr and Nd metal production in 2025. Shenghe operates rare-earth metal processing in Sichuan, Jiangxi, and Inner Mongolia. These facilities sit beside equipment suppliers, experienced operators, and enormous…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (156+ words) Days before this article appeared, GRINM met China Rare Earth Group to deepen cooperation spanning technology R&D, commercialization, intelligent manufacturing and industrial deployment. GRINM separately describes rare earths as one of its most important businesses and a “national strategic…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (333+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges University of South China Extracts Medical Lead-212 System From Rare-Earth Processing Waste - Researchers achieved 99.9% radionuclide purity and over 90% single-pass Pb-212 recovery using silica-supported anion-exchange resin from monazite processing residue. - A kilogram-scale batch yielded 158 microcuries; projections suggest 50 tonnes…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (409+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Saudi Aramco and Ma'aden Launch 182,000-Square-Kilometer Hunt for Critical Minerals - Saudi Aramco and Ma'aden form a 51%-49% joint venture covering 182,000 square kilometers near the Arabian Shield targeting copper and critical minerals. - USGS research identified Arabian Shield granites prospective…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (209+ words) The meeting matters well beyond Malaysia. In Great Powers Era 2.0™, globalization is not disappearing—it is being renegotiated. Resource-rich low- and middle-income countries increasingly want more than royalties from exporting raw materials. They want processing, technology, skilled employment, and a…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (244+ words) The irony is hiding in plain sight: roughly 70% of an NdFeB magnet by mass is iron. Washington is spending billions securing neodymium, praseodymium, and magnet manufacturing, but compliant iron matters too. DFARS 252.225-7052 specifies that from January 2027, restrictions for NdFeB magnets…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (511+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Baogang Group Pushes Rare Earths into 800 MPa Automotive Steel and Cooling Textiles - Baogang's 800 MPa rare earth-modified automotive steel has reportedly completed customer batch-application verification with tensile strength above 800 MPa and elongation above 20%. - Rare earth-functional cooling fibers were…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (149+ words) Malaysia has the rocks. China has much of the recipe. The West raises the prospect of capital. And increasingly, Kuala Lumpur wants it all. The Xinhua thesis gets the industrial economics right. Malaysia needs more than deposits. It needs extraction…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1106+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Laos Suspends Chinese Rare Earth Mine-Exposing Beijing's Heavy Rare Earth Vulnerability - Laos suspended a Chinese rare earth project in August 2026 over legal-compliance and environmental concerns, halting heavy rare earth feedstock supply. - China relies on ion-adsorption deposits in…...