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When China began its crackdown on the sector some fifteen years ago, there were hundreds of miners and processors. By 2013 ...
Japan will begin test mining for rare-earth-rich mud from the deep seabed off Minamitori Island, some 1,900 kilometres (1,180 ...
When China restricted rare earth exports to Japan in 2010 during a diplomatic spat, a wild west domestic industry undermined ...
The initiative, led by a government-backed project, aims to reduce reliance on imports and strengthen national security.
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science ...
Japan will try to mine the seabed in its Exclusive Economic Zone. Like the United States, India and Australia, Japan wants to ...
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was in Ranchester, Wyoming, on Friday for the ribbon cutting to open the first U.S. rare ...
The Secretary of the Ministry of Heavy Industry said that eligible manufacturers must carry out end-to-end processing-from ...
Further bolstering domestic priorities, state-run IREL (India) Limited was directed in June 2025 to suspend a 13-year-old ...
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 ...
Gracelin Baskaran of CSIS says Japan's push to develop deep sea rare earth mining manufacturing capabilities are crucially ...