Edgard Kagan, a career diplomat, told his Senate confirmation hearing that developing new sources for critical minerals was a very high priority.

Deal is to negotiate the supply of rare earth concentrate from Hasting’s Yangibana project in Western Australia.

The European Commission wants to speed up the development of new mines like Per Geijer to end its dependence.

The country’s energy ministry plans to submit to parliament in the next two weeks a proposal to open an area close to Svalbard to applications for exploration and extraction.

Altona, which is advancing the Monte Muambe rare earths project in northwest Mozambique, raised $2.5 million.

The southern African country has significant deposits of lithium as well as rare earth minerals.

Musk and the Mongolian government talked about a potential joint research venture on the use of rare earth elements and battery minerals.

The PFS is to be complete during the first half of 2024.