Why It’s So Hard to Challenge China’s Rare Earths Dominance

America and rare earths: a little urgency, please – Center for Security Policy

America usually has other countries over a barrel.  Not the other way around – unless you’re old enough to remember when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cracked the whip and Washington and the West usually fell in line. But last week China forced President Trump to back down on tough tariffs that were hurting the PRC. Why the retreat? Rare earth minerals. They’re nearly all sourced from China and Beijing choked off expor…

Trump Wants Rare Earths. But Challenging China’s Dominance Will Take More Than Tariffs

When, in December 1953, Dragnet became the first American television show to broadcast in color, few fans knew they had a dusty nook on the California-Nevada border to thank for bringing it to polychromatic life. But every early cathode-ray tube color television owed its screen’s red hue to europium, a rare earth element excavated and processed exclusively at the Mountain Pass Mine in San Bernardino County. From the 1950s to the 1980s, Mountain …

Why It’s So Hard to Challenge China’s Rare Earths Dominance

When, in December 1953, Dragnet became the first American television show to broadcast in color, few fans knew they had a dusty nook on the California-Nevada border to thank for bringing it to polychromatic life. But every early cathode-ray tube color television owed its screen’s red hue to europium, a rare earth element excavated and processed exclusively at the Mountain Pass Mine in San Bernardino County. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] From …

Altona Rare Earths Hits High-Grade, Near-Surface Gallium at Monte Muambe

Altona Rare Earths PLC (LSE:REE) has announced the discovery of high-grade, near-surface gallium mineralization at the Monte Muambe project in Mozambique, with grades reaching up to 550g/t Ga which is a 137% increase from earlier findings in April 2025. The in-fill soil sampling campaign built upon the three significant gallium soil anomalies announced in April 2025, with the current programme targeting several of these anomalies. There were ove…