The company's license also does not provide any rights to radioactive elements.

As tensions mount between China and the US, automakers are trying to reduce their reliance on permanent magnets.

Growing demand for electric vehicles has spurred small-scale miners of the lithium, cobalt and rare earths.

To power up e-car batteries and for energy storage alone, the EU estimates it will need up to 18 times more lithium by 2030 and up to 60 times more by 2050.

Demand for technology metals is accelerating ahead of the supply curve.

20 tonnes of mixed rare earth carbonate produced at Energy Fuels’ White Mesa Mill in Utah shipped to Neo's rare earth separations facility in Estonia.

Australian company has begun production at its Nechalacho project in the northwest territories.

The website contains the world’s largest dataset of minerals such cobalt, lithium and rare earth elements.