Mohan Yellishetty receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Geoscience Australia, Defense Science Institute, Boral Limited, AGL Loy Yang, Indian Ministry of Education. He is ...

The Albanese government says it will use a critical minerals reserve as leverage with the Trump administration over tariffs, as the mining industry warned that establishing the stockpile could ...

In the 1980s, analysts warned that mineral shortages to rival the OPEC oil shock could undermine the Cold War arsenal. Today, the concern is about China cornering the market for lithium and cobalt ...

SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on April 24 announced a A$1.2 billion (S$1 billion) plan to buy and stockpile some of the country’s vast deposits of critical minerals to ...

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia will stockpile critical minerals in a new strategic reserve, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday, as nations scramble to source rare earths and coveted ...

Mining of rare-earth minerals in China’s Inner Mongolia, in 2011. (Reuters) In its retaliation against U.S. tariffs, China slowed exports of several rare-earth minerals and magnets this month ...

Amid a wave of tariff escalations between the United States and China, the announcement spotlighted the deeper contest behind the headlines: the race to dominate global critical mineral supply chains.

Mining experts discussed the importance of domestic mineral mining for U.S. sustainability and security at a journalism conference in Arizona. Panelists emphasized the need for "social license ...

He added the company plans to apply for licences to explore for these two critical minerals as well as lithium, of which the DRC holds significant deposits but has yet to fully unlock. These ...

After the U.S. imposed new tariffs, China responded by restricting exports of several rare earth minerals critical to American defense and medical technologies. To protect national security ...

The strategic minerals partnership under Global Witness scrutiny was signed in February 2024. It is supposed to allow the EU to better access raw materials from Rwanda, including the coltan ...

“In this critical minerals race, we are literally up against some fairly nefarious global partners, so we’ve got to get on with it,” Lecce said. “Minister Holland and I understand that ...