Aclara Resources will begin trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker “ARA” on December 10.

An asteroid as big as a football field has been singled out by scientists as an ideal target for a mining exploration mission.

Penn State University researchers developed new nanotechnology to separate neodymium found in electronic waste using plant cellulose.

Cornell researchers are looking for an environmentally friendly, low-temperature, low-pressure method to mine rare earth elements from rock.

US-based researchers estimate that 200,000 tons of rare earth elements are trapped in unprocessed phosphogypsum waste in Florida alone.