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South Korea will seek closer cooperation with China to stabilize supplies of rare earth minerals critical to its high-tech industries, the government said Thursday.

Rare earth elements are used in a wide variety of modern technologies, from wind turbines to phones. While the elements aren't all that rare, they are difficult to extract and purify. A team led by researchers from Northeastern University in the US has developed a new way to pull REEs from waste left behind from coal mining,

A Japanese research vessel has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, Japan’s government announced Monday as the coun

USA Rare Earth will build a facility in Lacq, France, capable of producing 3,750 metric tons per year of rare earth metals and alloys.