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

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1 900 km southeast of Tokyo, in January next year, the head of the government-backed project ...

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 ...

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.

As rare earth magnet shortages threaten India’s EV and defence sectors, a little-known state-run firm, 75 years old, is ...

Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1… ...

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), will begin experimental drilling for rare earth ...

India currently produces only 1 per cent of global output in critical rare earth minerals even though it has 6 per cent of ...

Ramaco, a mining company, is developing a small coal mine in Wyoming that will extract rare earth elements from the coal it ...

Japan’s Nikkei business daily reported that the mission aims to extract 35 tonnes of mud from the sea floor over around three weeks. Each tonne is expected to contain around two kilograms (4.4 pounds) ...

The quotas serve as a barometer for the global supply of rare earths, a group of 17 elements used in electric vehicles, wind ...

Further bolstering domestic priorities, state-run IREL (India) Limited was directed in June 2025 to suspend a 13-year-old export agreement with Japan, redirecting rare earth supplies for local use to ...