6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (326+ words) Is there a connection? There is no public evidence that Washington is trading Taiwan arms for rare-earth access. But the strategic overlap is too important for investors to ignore. America is trying to reduce both dependencies—but time matters. China's…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (414+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges China Reports 4.7% Growth as Industrial Output Surges: "Strong Supply, Weak Demand" Reveals the Hidden Crisis - China's GDP grew 4.7% in H1 2026, with high-tech manufacturing up 13.3% and exports surging 13.4%, but domestic retail sales rose only 2.7%. - Economist Wang Yiming acknowledges a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (362+ words) Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium Rare Earth Exchanges Heavy Rare Earth Elements Reveal China's Hidden Chokepoint Beyond Dysprosium and Terbium - USGS ranks lutetium third among 84 minerals by U.S. supply-disruption risk, with a $2.059 billion annual…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (429+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges European Advanced Materials Report Exposes Scale-Up Gap as China Maintains Industrial Lead - Europe has strong research and patents but lacks industrial scale, capital deployment, and midstream processing capacity to compete with China. - China holds a two-decade lead…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) rareearthexchanges.com Japan's Takaichi Seeks China Dialogue as Rare Earth Restrictions Bite - China has restricted rare earth exports to Japan including yttrium, terbium, gallium, and dysprosium following diplomatic tensions over Taiwan comments. - China controls roughly 90% of global rare earth refining…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (335+ words) The biggest lesson for critical-mineral markets is simple: geology does not equal supply. Finding neodymium, dysprosium, platinum or nickel in an asteroid does not make it ready to use. The material must still be mined, concentrated, separated, refined and turned…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (360+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Vietnam's GIS-IDEAS 2026 Links Geospatial Science With Dong Pao Rare Earth Pilot - HUMG will host GIS-IDEAS 2026 in Hanoi from September 24–27, uniting Vietnamese, Japanese and regional researchers in geospatial science and Earth sciences. - Hanoi has authorized an 18-month controlled…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (581+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges India Courts Myanmar for Heavy Rare Earth Elements - Kachin Rebels Hold the Strategic Ground - India is running a two-track strategy: engaging Myanmar's military government diplomatically while separately pursuing heavy rare earth access through the Kachin Independence Army…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (249+ words) This is important—but it is not yet a commercial rare-earth separation breakthrough. The pilot takes Dong Pao ore through flotation and hydrometallurgy to produce a mixed TREO product above 95%. It does not demonstrate commercial production of individually separated neodymium,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (449+ words) Rare Earth Exchanges Lanzhou LSZK and Lanzhou University Target Industrial Scale-Up of Advanced Rare-Earth Nanomaterials - Lanzhou LSZK Technology and Lanzhou University signed agreements covering joint research, talent development, and an AI + advanced materials R&D platform. - Professor Pinxian Xi's work…...