Tag Archives: rare earths
Rare Earth Supply Crunch Deepens as China’s Dominance Challenges Western Industrial Strategy
The global rare earths sector is no longer a marginal corner of the mining industry. It has evolved into a strategic industrial ecosystem where processing, refining,…
Asia Pacific Critical Minerals Mining: How Infrastructure Dominance Is Reshaping Global Supply Chains
The Asia Pacific region has become the central pillar of the global critical minerals mining system, not because of resource abundance alone, but due to its…
Europe’s Rare Earth Dependency Exposes a Strategic Weakness in the Green Industrial Transition
Europe’s ambition to lead the global energy transition is increasingly constrained by a less visible but critical bottleneck: a structural dependence on imported rare earth elements.…
London’s Critical Minerals Shift: How Europe’s Lithium, Graphite and Rare Earth Push Is Rewiring Mining Finance
Europe’s drive to secure critical minerals is drawing capital into a more upstream model—mines and processing—while London’s financial markets increasingly underwrite lithium, graphite and rare earth…
Korsnäs Rare Earths Expansion in Finland Positions European Resources at the Heart of Europe’s Critical Minerals Strategy
European Resources has substantially expanded its Korsnäs rare earths project in western Finland, strengthening one of Europe’s most closely watched critical raw materials developments at a…
Rare Earths and Battery Metals Boom: Powering the Next Global Industrial Revolution
The global race for industrial leadership in 2026 is increasingly centered on rare earth elements and battery metals. Once considered niche resources, these materials have become…
China Shifts Strategy in Europe’s Critical Minerals Sector, Emphasizing Processing Partnerships
China is reasserting its role in Europe’s critical minerals industry, moving away from outright acquisitions toward joint ventures and processing investments. The shift matters because control…
Southeast Europe builds a critical-minerals refining corridor as EU supply-chain push accelerates
Lithium, copper and rare-earth processing projects are drawing investment to the Danube–Adriatic–Black Sea region, as the EU targets domestic processing and recycling by 2030. Serbia, Romania,…
Europe Turns to Solvent Extraction to Secure Critical Minerals—But the Scale Gap Remains
Europe’s critical-minerals push is shifting from mining to solvent extraction and hydrometallurgical refining, where value and leverage are increasingly concentrated. Yet with less than 5% of…
Sino-European Critical Minerals Alliance: How Lithium, Nickel and Rare Earth Cooperation Could Reshape Global Supply Chains
As geopolitical tensions redraw the map of global trade, Europe and China are navigating a relationship defined by competition, dependency, and strategic opportunity. Nowhere is this…