Gracelin Baskaran of CSIS says Japan's push to develop deep sea rare earth mining manufacturing capabilities are crucially needed. She also discusses the various issues surrounding deep sea mining, ...

While rare earth mineral trading generates modest revenue, their strategic value far outweighs market price as governments ...

Japan will try to mine the seabed in its Exclusive Economic Zone. Like the United States, India and Australia, Japan wants to ...

The United States and other countries will have to replicate China’s processing capabilities to dismantle one of Beijing’s ...

Beijing uses its near-monopoly on critical minerals to win trade concessions. Can the U.S. find alternate supplies?

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...

Through consolidation and quotas, Beijing has turned a once-unruly sector, responsible for 90% of rare earth processing ...

China has been able to entirely cut off Europe and the U.S. from several critical rare earth metals. How did it develop such a stranglehold on an industry the U.S. once controlled?

The continent wants to reduce the risks of depending so heavily on China for the valuable minerals. The question is how.