A Malaysian parliamentary committee will hold a hearing on July 16 to discuss a $96 million rare earths supply ​deal signed between Australia's Lynas Rare Earths and the ‌U.S. Department of Defense ea...

North America holds 35M tonnes of rare earth oxides across 28 deposits, but geology alone won't build a supply chain from rocks to magnets.

Introduction: The Weight of Expectations

Environmental group National Parks Conservation Association, represented by Earthjustice, is suing the US Department of the Interior and National Park Service over approval of Dateline Resources’ Colo...

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Recent federal actions to support the burgeoning US critical minerals industry lack a clear strategy to address national security and short-term priorities.

Widely distributed but hard to disentangle, exotic elements are vital to green energy and military applications. For decades, China has dominated the dirty business of mining and processing rare earth...

The Guam Legislature voted Friday to ban deep-sea mining from island waters, a symbolic but pointed rebuke of a federal push that has already moved faster than most island leaders

The Metals Company just signed a commercial deep-sea mining deal, targeting 3Mwt/y by late 2027.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management closed its public comment period on April 1. It’s a first-of-its-kind lease sale, covering more than 113 million acres of federal offshore waters.

The Metals Company Inc. (TMC), Vancouver, British Columbia, on Monday annoucnced it has signed a commercial agreement with offshore contractor Allseas, Châtel-Saint-Denis, Switzerland, to develo

Pacific theology reframes deep-sea mining as a moral reckoning, not just a technical task — with implications for DSM governance.

A major review of 50 years of data warns that a Pacific "gold rush" for deep sea minerals will cause "dire and long-lasting" damage to the Moana's last great wilderness.

The process could have a devastating effect on species in deep sea habitats, experts said.

From seabird nesting sites to stunning coral gardens, here’s what’s at risk if a new Alaska deep sea mining proposal moves forward.

With federal lease sales for critical minerals in Pacific waters bearing down, the governors of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands are taking their fight directly to

When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...