Projects to be funded include the second rare earth separation plant to be built outside China, a battery material refinery and a vanadium processing plant.

Prices have surged since the second half of 2021 amid concerns of supply uncertainty from Myanmar.

This graphic lists all of the minerals that the government deemed critical to both the economic and national security of the United States.

Blaming the Administration for inconsistency in how individual projects are treated is missing the point, writes Andy Home.

The Colmena mission, which means "beehive" in Spanish, will gather lunar minerals that could be useful in future space mining.

Demand for neodymium and praseodymium (NdPr), one of the most important minerals that Lynas mines, has soared in recent years.