As part of reducing reliance on China for rare earths, India is moving ahead with the auction of patches of land in Rajasthan ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Beijing’s 91% grip on materials vital to defence and electric vehicles is down to its scale, but also its lead in processing.

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

Guy Le Page looks at a rare earth player in Brazilian Critical Minerals and an uncommon in-situ project showing some ...

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

But these old rocks were one of the rarest minerals found on Earth. Until the discovery, only about a snowball-sized amount ...

A letter lost for 75 years in a Bavarian archive led to the remarkable discovery of humboldtine, one of Earth's rarest ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s. Telling the assembled guests and reporters that the “Brook Mine” ...

NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

The clean energy transition can’t happen without these minerals The big, complicated race for critical minerals, explained.