Canada invests $12m to extract magnesium from asbestos tailings

Quebec junior’s Rose project to make the most of rapidly changing market for critical minerals

The Jamaican government has announced the discovery of an abundance of rare earth minerals in its soil by a team of Japanese scientists.

Autonomous Danish territory is "too reliant" on fisheries and EU subsidies.

Molycorp is down 22% after putting on hold production expansion. Yesterday the miner gave money for a new $120 million institute tasked with finding alternatives to the very stuff it is mining.

Scientists from Japan plan to search the floor of the Pacific Ocean for rare earth deposits in bid to reduce the nation's dependence on China for the key industrial materials

These aren't the only countries facing creeping nationalization

if they manage to crack thorium, the world will need less oil, coal, and gas than feared.

WTO dispute over Chinese quotas was a meaningless exercise to begin with.

Australian miner rockets 14% after saying first commercial rare earths available within weeks. Molycorp et al surge in sympathy.