Vulcan Elements, a Durham-based startup manufacturing rare-earth magnets, says it plans to hire around 1,000 workers at a new $1 billion factory in the town of Benson in Johnston County....

The minerals security expert argues that early U.S. efforts to dent China’s rare earth dominance are paying off — but warns the road ahead is long....

Look under almost every element of President Trump's second-term foreign policy — from the trade war with China, to peace in Ukraine, to annexing Greenland — and you'll find critical minerals....

Nov 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday called critical minerals a key priority as he hosted the leaders of five Central Asian nations at the White House, emphasizing his administration's efforts to expand and secure U.S. supply chains through new global agreements....

European governments are racing to rearm their militaries as they face up to a more aggressive Russia and an increasingly isolationist America. But that push must overcome a formidable roadblock in the shape of China’s restrictions on critical minerals....

Q- Panama’s Supreme Court on Oct. 15 rejected for the second time a lawsuit challenging a 2023 moratorium on metallic mining, constraining the administration of President José Raúl Mulino’s legal avenues to reopen the Cobre Panamá mine. Economy and Finance Minister Felipe Chapman has stipulated that any agreement to reopen the mine must state clearly that Panama is the legal owner of the land and resources and has reallocated funds toward social spending in the revised 2026 budget. What options does the Mulino administration have left to legally reopen the mine after the court’s latest ruling? What are the risks of reigniting protests or political backlash if the mine is ultimately reopened? Could potential efforts to link mining revenue to social spending help shift public opinion? ...

As part of president Trump’s agreement with Chinese president Xi, China agreed to temporarily back off some of its restrictions on rare earth elements — these are the weird elements toward the bottom of the periodic table with special magnetic and optical properties that find their way into everything from MRIs to intercontinental missiles....

As China flexes its rare-earth muscle in trade talks, U.S. President Donald Trump has been waging an all-out effort to ramp up domestic critical mineral production and secure new partnerships abroad....

WASHINGTON/GYEONGJU, South Korea -- The summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping ended with a rewinding of some trade war measures and threats, pulling the world's two largest economies out of a game of geopolitical chicken....

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping used their first meeting since Trump returned to office to agree to a temporary truce on their trade tensions, stopping short of a full agreement but dialing back some of their harshest mutual countermeasures. It leaves the U.S.-China trade relationship only slightly worse than it was one year ago but less contentious than it could be....

The US trade deal with China seeks to resolve a major sticking point of their ongoing trade war: rare-earth minerals....

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