The minerals found in an electric-car battery often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles they will be in hit the road. Lithium mined in Chile or Argentina is shipped to China ...

The discovery of a vast metal deposit in the U.S. recently made headlines, with geological surveys estimating the find to have an extractable mass of 20 to 40 million metric tons. Even more ...

Geopolitical tensions and conflicts, such as those in Ukraine, made the EU realise how vulnerable it is in relying on just one or even a few countries for key resources. As was the case with Russian ...