India has a $800m plan to make rare earth magnets, aiming to reduce dependence on Chinese imports - but can it work?

All the world’s discarded phones, bricked laptops, and other trashed electronics are collectively a treasure trove of rare earth elements (REEs). But separating out and recovering these increasingly ...

And Why China’s Dirty Secret Keeps It Years Ahead of the U.S. They’re buried deep beneath the earth—muddy, toxic, and invisible to most of the world. Yet without these obscure metals, the magnets that ...

Toronto-based Cyclic Materials has announced that its partnership with Vacuumschmelze (Vac), a leading developer of magnetic materials and solutions, has been expanded with the signing of a 10-year ...

China’s far-reaching rules already affect manufacturers of semiconductors, cars and many other products. They will soon become much broader. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing Starting over a ...