MP Materials builds $1.25B Texas magnet plant
MP Materials (NYSE: MP) is due to break ground within days on a billion-dollar rare earth magnet manufacturing campus near Dallas. The $1.25-billion project, dubbed…
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PDAC due for investor surge as mining ‘has its moment’
A buoyant BMO metals conference this week marked by rising prices, disciplined miners and renewed deal talk is setting the stage for the world’s largest…
Chile’s right-wing pivot puts mining policy under microscope
Chile is entering a new political phase as a right-wing government prepares to take office, putting mining policy under renewed scrutiny in the world’s largest…
BC fast-tracks three projects
British Columbia has selected two copper and a rare earths project for its Critical Minerals Office to co-ordinate environmental assessments and permitting. Northisle Copper and…
Gold, rare earths top TSXV’s performers
Gold’s surge to record highs and renewed interest in rare earths did more than lift producers in 2025, it propelled some of the industry’s riskier…
JV Video: The hidden foundation – how rare earths built the modern world
The technologies shaping the future all rely on a single, fragile link: rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metals are obscure to most — but…
Generals join critical-mineral boardroom arms race
Critical-mineral juniors are snapping up retired U.S. military leaders to help win Washington funding, echoing a playbook uranium producers pioneered years ago when they recast…
Indaba: New Cold War for minerals tests Africa’s ability to leverage huge resources
Africa’s vast critical-mineral endowment has thrust the continent to the centre of intensifying rivalries between the United States, China and other powers, but its future…
Opinion: Canadians must match American urgency in the race for critical minerals
In the cavernous halls of the U.S. State Department last week, something unusual was on display: earnest cooperation rather than the usual diplomatic theatre. The…
Indaba: South Africa ties mining reform to continent’s $30T industrialization push
South Africa has begun deploying its critical minerals strategy and overhauling key regulations as part of a push to revive exploration, expand downstream beneficiation and…
Critical Metals confirms high-grade HREEs at Tanbreez project in Greenland
Critical Metals (Nasdaq: CRML) says drilling at its Tanbreez project in Greenland indicates the potential to further grow the resource of what is ranked as…
Video: Rare earths’ outsized leverage
Rare earth elements may be obscure to most consumers, but they sit inside the magnets, motors and sensors that run much of the modern economy….