rare earth minerals

Rare earth minerals aren't rare, but the U.S. is having a hard time getting them

4:37am April 16, 2025

by A Martínez

China is retaliating against U.S. tariffs by restricting exports of rare earth minerals. Minerals expert Gracelin Baskaran explains why these little-known-elements are so vital to defense and tech.

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Meeting Trump at White House, Zelenskyy hopes for continued aid in war with Russia

7:08am February 28, 2025

The meeting comes about a week after Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and repeated Kremlin talking points, including suggesting that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

5 minerals in Ukraine that may be part of a deal with the U.S.

4:56pm February 26, 2025

President Trump says Ukraine is ready to sign a deal with the U.S. to share its mineral wealth. We look at five minerals and metals that could be covered by the deal.

Ukraine's Zelenskyy will meet Trump Friday to finish a minerals deal

12:25pm February 26, 2025

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Trump say they will meet Friday in Washington as the two countries finalize a deal on mineral resources.

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How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

10:49am February 23, 2025

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

The iron ore mine in Kiruna, north of the Arctic Circle, is one of the world's largest iron ore mines.

It's a journey to the center of the rare earths discovered in Sweden

9:01am July 18, 2023

by Jackie Northam

Sweden says it found the largest deposit in Europe of rare earths — ingredients in a host of technologies from e-vehicles to wind turbines. Mining and processing them is another story.

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Voters stand in line to cast ballots Tuesday for Greenland's parliamentary elections at a polling station in the capital.

Opposition Wins Elections In Greenland, Casting Doubt On Future Of Rare-Earth Mine

2:11pm April 07, 2021

by Scott Neuman

At the center of Tuesday's election was a rare-earth mining project that has seen those favoring greater development square off against others who want more environmental safeguards.

Giant icebergs float in the fjord in the southern Greenland town of Narsaq, the site of a controversial Australian-led uranium and rare-earth mining project. The open-pit mine has divided opinion on the island, which goes to the polls on Tuesday.

A Row Over Rare-Earth Deposits Could Bring Down Greenland's Government

8:58pm April 06, 2021

Greenlanders are going to the polls Tuesday in a crucial election that could determine if the island taps its vast deposits of rare-earth minerals to fuel eventual independence from Denmark.

Narsaq, a town of 1,200 in southern Greenland, sits near the Kvanefjeld project, one of two major rare earth mineral deposits in Greenland. The Arctic island has a wealth of rare earth resources that the U.S. has labeled as essential to national defense.

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Greenland Is Not For Sale. But It Has Rare Earth Minerals America Wants

4:43pm November 27, 2019

by Jackie Northam

The Arctic island has a wealth of rare earth resources that the U.S. has labeled as essential to national defense.

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