Rare earths hub
The full picture: 48 mines, processing plants, and magnet makers worldwide, with production data, project capacities, federal programs, and policy.
Critical minerals
From deposits in the ground to finished products.
One place for what is actually happening in critical minerals: where the resources are and who mines them; who processes, refines, and manufactures; what governments are funding; which federal opportunities are open right now; what the national labs can do; and how policy and trade actions are reshaping supply. Coverage starts with the rare earths and permanent magnet chain, in depth. Every fact is dated and linked to its source.
Explore the chain
Change log
What changed and when — awards, construction milestones, and policy moves in one dated stream.
11 funding opportunities
Federal grants, loans, and solicitations for critical minerals — what is open and what came before.
Policy timeline
Dated executive, legislative, and trade actions shaping the chain.
National lab capabilities
Ames National Laboratory / Critical Materials Innovation Hub
DOE's lead lab for critical-materials science and home of the Critical Materials Innovation Hub (CMI), spanning separations chemistry, magnet materials, and recycling. 272 rare-earth publications, patents, and reports are listed below with links to their official OSTI records.
Idaho National Laboratory
INL's rare earth work centers on recovery from unconventional and secondary feedstocks, including bioleaching and e-waste value recovery. 147 documents are listed below with links to their official OSTI records.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ORNL's separations-science and manufacturing programs cover rare earth solvent extraction, membrane separation, and magnet recycling — the deepest single-lab rare-earth publication corpus among DOE labs. 666 documents are listed below with links to their official OSTI records.
NETL / METALLIC
The National Energy Technology Laboratory runs METALLIC and DOE's unconventional-feedstock rare earth programs — coal byproducts, acid mine drainage, and produced waters. 238 documents are listed below with links to their official OSTI records.
External headlines
News fetch last succeeded more than three days ago. Showing the last good snapshot.
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China is sending scientists to Iran for rare earth ‘exploration and processing’
A Chinese-Iranian rare earth partnership would extend China’s processing reach into new deposits, the stage of the chain where its leverage is already strongest.
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Jiangxi Copper Scales 0.03-Millimeter Copper Strip as Jiangxi Builds Advanced-Materials Pipeline
Reports Chinese progress in precision advanced-materials manufacturing, the kind of downstream capability US supply-chain policy is trying to build domestically.
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Europe’s rare earth strategy is betting on allies
How Europe is structuring its rare earth strategy around allied producers, a track that runs parallel to US friendshoring efforts.
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Australia Ups Scrutiny of Chinese-Linked Rare Earths Investors
Australia, a key allied supplier, is tightening review of Chinese-linked investment in its rare earth projects, which bears on allied control of new capacity.
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Utility plans Alabama facility to extract rare earths from coal ash
A US utility plans to recover rare earths from coal ash in Alabama, an unconventional domestic feedstock beyond traditional mining.
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VHM Limited (ASX:VHM) Share Price Declines as Goschen Rare Earths Project Progress Remains in Focus
Investor coverage of VHM’s share price tied to progress at its Goschen rare earths project in Australia.
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Ferro-Alloy Resources: US Interest, a Near-$1bn Phase One NPV and a New Rare Earths Upside (video)
Promotional investor coverage of Ferro-Alloy Resources, citing US interest and a claimed rare earths upside alongside its vanadium project.
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L&T Eyeing Rare Earth Magnet Production in India
An Indian engineering major weighing rare earth magnet production would add non-Chinese capacity at the chain’s tightest bottleneck.
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L&T plans rare earth magnet manufacturing in India
Further coverage of L&T’s planned entry into rare earth magnet manufacturing in India.
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Odisha Bets On Rare Earths, Ocean Science, Space To Drive Next Growth Phase
An Indian state putting rare earths among its growth priorities, one signal of India’s broader push into the sector.