China Dominates the Rare Earths Market. This U.S.
As of today, China accounts for 63 percent of the world's rare earth mining, 85 percent of rare earth processing, and 92 percent of rare earth magnet production. Rare earth alloys...
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US Builds New Critical Minerals Supply Chain to Counter Chinese Rare
From 2010 to 2020, 261 companies in 37 countries outside of China initiated a total of 429 rare earth projects, adding between 80,000 and 100,000 tonnes of rare earth production capacity. Meanwhile, from 2013 to 2020, China's rare earth reserves fell by 20 percent from 55 million tonnes to 44 million tonnes due to decades of destructive mining.
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How rare earth elements factor into the clean energy …
FOX News anchor Bret Baier has the latest on the environmental impact of mining on 'Special Report.'. The demand for Rare Earth Elements is growing as the world transitions to cleaner energy ...
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Politics, markets, and rare commodities: responses to Chinese rare …
The rare-earth sanctions provide an opportunity to investigate claims of economic statecraft, power and interdependence, and the political implications of near-monopoly control of a resource critical for high-tech military, consumer, medical, and environmental industries.
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A mine in Wyoming could contain $37 billion worth of rare earth
In 2021, the US imported $160 million worth of rare-earth compounds and metals, per the US Geological Survey. That's why, the US government is pushing to mine for REEs at home instead of relying on imports. Early this year, the White House announced it plans to invest $32 million in domestic rare earth and other mineral projects.
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The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and
Nonetheless I've been following rare earth politics for a while, it's a subject I esteem, and I have to recommend this book. Of course, having the author in mind, the subject also has the French elites as the target audience, though I'm not sure he's telling anything new or convincing. He mentions the French influence on the Pacific ...
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Rare Earths: Latest News, Top Stories & Analysis
U.S. decides against national security tariffs on rare earth magnets from China, Japan, EU. By DOUG PALMER. 09/21/2022 10:16 AM EDT.
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Commissioners highlight PSU research to extract rare earth …
Rare earth elements dissolve in acid at differing levels of pH and the Penn State method takes advantage of this by gradually increase the pH to separate the elements.
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Progressive Policy Institute New U.S. Policy on Rare …
The report outlines four policy recommendations for a Rare Earths Elements strategy in the U.S., including: Introducing tax incentives for domestic rare earth …
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History and Future of Rare Earth Elements
The Discovery and Commercialization of the Rare Earth Elements. The term rare earth was coined when an unusual black rock was unearthed by a miner in Ytterby, Sweden, in 1788. The ore was called "rare" because it had never been seen before and "earth" because that was the 18th-century geological term for rocks that could be dissolved in ...
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How to Actually Overcome China's Rare Earths Monopoly
Rare earths have that same number there – it's the inner shells where they differ. That might sound a little in the weeds for a diplomatic magazine, but it gives us our essential problem. Rare ...
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Rare Earths and Geopolitics: An Increasingly Messy Mix
A narrative has emerged suggesting that China possesses a willingness to leverage its control over REMs to punish nations over disagreements in the political arena. Rare Earths and Geopolitics: An ...
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What are rare earth elements, and why are they important?
The rare earth elements (REE) are a set of seventeen metallic elements. These include the fifteen lanthanides on the periodic table plus scandium and yttrium. Rare earth elements are an essential part of many high-tech devices. The U.S. Geological Survey news release "Going Critical" explains:
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Rare earths: global reserves by country 2022 | Statista
Rare earth reserves worldwide 2022, by country. Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 30, 2023. China's reserves of rare earths amounted to an estimated 44 million metric tons of rare ...
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Enhance US rare earth security through international …
Rare earth elements and materials used in lithium-ion batteries are among the 50 materials deemed critical or strategic to the U.S. ... China has already used its near monopoly on rare earth elements as a political weapon against Japan (in 2010) and more subtly in the trade war with the United States in 2019.
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R&D, not Greenland, can solve our rare earth problem
Although pundits love to conjure a monolithic "China" as the bogeyman in contemporary rare earth politics, U.S. and Chinese scientists have worked together for decades. We have much to gain by ...
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Rare Earth Politics across Time, Space, and Scale
Klinger's analysis in Rare Earth Frontiers takes two fascinating—and for some, likely quite surprising—turns. The first brings us back to the role of environmental …
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The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements
The rare earth elements are already critical to the U.S. defense sector, but rare earth mining, processing and fabrication capabilities will even more strongly influence geopolitical dynamics in the …
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U.S.: rare earths global production share 2022 | Statista
Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 30, 2023. As of 2022, the United States accounted for a 14.33 percent share of the total global rare earth mine production. The U.S. was the world's ...
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Rare earth elements: Development, sustainability and policy …
Bruun excavates the political life of rare earth elements in Greenland through a rich historical analysis of Danish uranium prospecting during the cold war. Drawing on archival research and fieldwork, this article illustrates how scientific knowledge production about rare earth elements and related materials represent an effort to order society ...
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Geopolitics and rare earth metals
We empirically examine the role of geopolitics in markets for rare earth metals. • Geopolitical risk positively (negatively) impact import price (value) of Japan. • …
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3 Ways to Invest in Rare-Earth Stocks | Investing | U.S. News
The fund is down 8.8% year to date as of Aug. 18. The most popular rare-earth fund is the VanEck Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF ( REMX ), which has an expense ratio of 0.54%, has been around ...
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Rare-earth element | Uses, Properties, & Facts
rare-earth element, any member of the group of chemical elements consisting of three elements in Group 3 (scandium [Sc], yttrium [Y], and lanthanum [La]) and the first extended row of elements below the …
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Geopolitics and rare earth metals
Using Japanese rare earth metals trading data from 1988 to 2019, we find that heightened geopolitical risk is associated with higher rare earth metals prices (i.e., weighted average price per kg of the metal) and that such risk is associated with lower overall export values, especially for the Japan-China trade.
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NDAA takes aim at critical mineral supply chain
Ground crew maneuver an F-35B Lightning II combat aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina on March 8, 2016. The fighter requires more than 900 pounds of rare earth materials.
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Contemporary Global Rare Earth Politics: Persistent …
Contemporary Global Rare Earth Politics: Persistent Myths, Policy Challenges, and Possible Pathways Forward - 5 May 2021. Please note that this event has passed. This …
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Greenland and the geopolitics of critical minerals
Rare earth elements, ... China's intention to occupy countries militarily or to seek influence in domestic politics but to secure access to resources, enabling it greater influence in facilitating the smooth flow of global supplies. One of the main ways to do this is through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with investments in roads ...
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The Guardian view on rare earths: mining them can't cost the Earth
A US ia-class submarine requires about four tonnes of rare earth materials. China has been willing to use key minerals as a political weapon. After tensions between Beijing and Tokyo boiled ...
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Geopolitics and rare earth metals
Rare earth elements are critical in the production of consumer products, renewables, and green, industrial, and defense products. Using more than thirty years of Japanese import data, we document statistically significant relationships between geopolitics and rare earth metals. ... Political economists, on the other hand, are interested in the ...
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The Environment-Security Nexus in Contemporary …
Part of the International Political Economy Series book series (IPES) Abstract. If we are serious about demystifying the political economic peculiarities of the contemporary rare …
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