As the trade war between the United States and China escalates, Beijing may be preparing to play a new card: its control of rare earth minerals. Chinese state media this week issued a warning to ...

China appears to have stopped publishing details of its rare earth mining and refining quotas, in a break from normal ...

The Rare Earths Monthly Metals Index (MMI) dropped 4.87% at the end of 2023 due to these developments, reflecting a shift in global rare earth supply dynamics.

USA Rare Earth is receiving a surge in investment as America rushes to reduce its reliance on Chinese rare earth magnets.

There is one other rare earth mine in the U.S., located in Mountain Pass, California, but Brook Mine will be the first new ...

The trade war has escalated to include rare earth metals, and if the threats and rumors currently circulating come to fruition, the technologies and industries that make up the very core of modern ...

Rare earths are China's bargaining chip in the trade war — the U.S. is trying to fix that By Magdalena Petrova, CNBC, Jeniece Pettitt, CNBC and Jason Reginato, CNBC • Published July 29, 2025 ...

In 2025, Donald Trump returned to the White House, promising to fix America’s trade problems with China through a tougher ...

As delegations from the United States and China met in London the week of June 9 to talk about a new trade deal, it was expected that discussions about an agreement on opening up the exports of rare ...

Now, rare earths have become a bargaining chip in the expanding trade war between China and the United States, which escalated after the Trump administration placed Huawei, the world's largest ...

Earlier this summer, the Chinese government implied that it might halt exports of rare earth elements to the United States as its next step in the ongoing trade war. These minerals serve as ...

In the U.S., there is an operating rare earth mine in the state of California called Mountain Pass that in 2018 was responsible for about 10 percent of total global mine production.