The Love of Lithium
• https://fee.org, Sascha HannigThe new strategic frontline for liberal democracies.
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The G7's critical minerals bloc.
China just switched on the world's largest grid battery in Fujian Province.
Bolivia is once again at the centre of a struggle over sovereignty, resources and political power.
Higher in Steps: UBS Sees Copper Marching Toward $15,500
The United States and India signed a key agreement on May 26 to secure critical minerals and rare earth mining, processing, and supplies, further loosening China's grip on the global market, during Secretary of State Marco Rubio's four-day visit.
The ABC and the Guardian think they are onto some hot scandalous leak, but they don't seem to realize the awful truth they are accidentally revealing.
Most people don't spend much time thinking about copper. Or cobalt. Or manganese.
The metals with the highest melting points aren't trivia. They're the materials that make hypersonic weapons, jet engines, AI chips, and nuclear reactors possible.
Means, motive, and opportunity. It looks for all the world like China used dirty tactics to corner the rare earth processing plants of the world.
The United States has been importing thousands of tons of lithium a year. In 2025, more than 4,000 tons of lithium flowed into the country, meeting more than half of American demand for the element.
$65B lithium mother lode hidden beneath Appalachian Mountains could supply US with power for centuries
Critical Metals Corp. shares have surged as much as 45% in trading today after the company significantly expanded its position in Greenland's Tanbreez rare earth project, tightening its grip on a resource it sees as central to a US-friendly supply
Australia will begin purchasing and storing key minerals for defense and high-tech industries from local miners as part of a A$1.2 billion ($802 million) national reserve aimed at strengthening global supply chains, according to a new report from Blo
The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China's dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologi
Rare earth elements (REEs) are the backbone of modern technology, from EV motors and wind turbines to smartphones and precision-guided systems.
Beneath the Pacific, a new front opens in the global race to break China's grip on the minerals that power our world
In this episode of The GoldSilver Show, Mike Maloney and Alan Hibbard put mining stocks vs. physical gold under the microscope using decades of data--then deliver a simple conclusion:
JP Morgan and COMEX tried their previously effective market manipulation nuclear option. It worked in 2011,...but this time the market shrugged it off. Monday will tell all.
Concrete is the world's most manufactured item, with more than 25 billion tons used in construction each year.
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MP Materials stock is up more than 6% heading into the cash open after the company announced a rare earth refinery joint venture with Saudi Arabia's flagship mining company.
Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty and sustained central bank buying, the price of gold reached record levels...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said China "made a real mistake" by threatening to restrict exports of rare earth minerals, adding that Beijing's move has jolted the United States and its allies to fast-track efforts to secure new sources with
Rare Earth Stocks Go Vertical After Report Pentagon To Go On $1 Billion Critical Mineral "Buying Spree"
President Donald Trump issued a presidential memo on Oct. 6 ordering the approval of a proposed 211-mile industrial road in Alaska to allow access to copper and cobalt minerals.
In the vast, silent expanse of Nevada's high desert, a dusty pass named Thacker has become the unlikely epicenter of a national transformation.
The almost complete US reliance on a single foreign supplier, China, for rare-earth magnets is a glaring vulnerability
A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a land transfer for a major Arizona copper mine, prompting a rebuke from President Donald Trump.
Three miners have been trapped 500 meters underground at Newmont Corp.'s Red Chris mine in northwest British Columbia since Tuesday after part of a non-producing area of the mine collapsed.