President Donald Trump is increasing the US government's stakes in the private sector, a trend experts say may be necessary to strengthen domestic supply chains for metals and mining....

The head of one of China’s largest rare earth miners boasted recently of the country’s dominance of the critical minerals industry, telling investors that western efforts to weaken Beijing’s grasp were destined to fail....

The U.S. is ramping up efforts to boost production of crucial components used in electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets...

Take a look at the U.S. military arsenal, and you’ll find that much of the United States’ firepower depends on rare earths—powerful materials whose supply chains are largely controlled by China. ...

The US is scrambling to get hold of the rare earth metals needed to make weapons after China slashed its supply to American defence firms....

The United States will impose a 50 per cent tariff on copper pipes and wiring, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, but details of the levy fell short of the sweeping restrictions that were expected and left out copper input materials such as ores, concentrates and cathodes....

Washington is making big moves, but Beijing has a powerful hand. ...

Just four months into his tenure at the Pentagon, private equity billionaire Steve Feinberg has landed his first big deal: a $400 million bet on the US’s only miner of rare-earth elements, a key commodity in the rivalry with China....

July 15 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab has signed a $500 million deal with MP Materials (MP.N), opens new tab for rare earth magnets, mitigating supply risks after China curbed exports this year and representing a major coup for MP that sent its shares soaring by a fifth....

FORT WORTH—At an industrial site in this Texas city, men dressed in head-to-toe protective gear dip giant ladles into a well of molten metal heated to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit. They’re making something the U.S. has hardly, if ever, produced at commercial scale in recent decades: rare-earth metals. ...

The new budget law creates hurdles for domestic critical minerals despite new support, Center for Strategic and International Studies analysts write....

Months of fraught U.S.-China trade talks have laid bare just how reliant the United States is on China for rare earths, the powerful raw materials that underpin technology from fighter jets to wind turbines. ...