US President unveiled Project Vault, a strategic critical mineral reserve. The initiative highlights an underlying inflation pressures.

Countries are racing to obtain the critical minerals and rare earths needed to make everything from smartphones to electric cars. US President Donald Trump has made access to these minerals a priority ...

The moves come shortly after President Donald Trump announced the establishment of a U.S. critical mineral reserve.

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President Donald Trump spent most of 2025 hacking away at large parts of the federal government. His administration fired, bought out, or otherwise ousted hundreds of thousands of federal employees.

The next global resource shock may not be about oil. It may be about the minerals inside the batteries that we’re betting on ...

Trump officials are eager to “fix” the country’s mining industry, beleaguered by crime; instability; and a dearth of investment, data and oversight. While President Donald Trump is fixated on ...

A new Global Justice Now report has found that nearly one-fifth of minerals labeled “critical” by the U.K. aren’t actually essential for the green energy transition, but are instead needed for the ...

President Donald Trump’s focus on securing the domestic rare earth minerals market puts the White House in a bind: Does it ignore its promise to deregulate? Trump, shortly after returning to office in ...

The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ...

For over two decades, I have worked with Chinese and Indian companies across mineral trade, industrial cooperation and technology. That experience, grounded in supply chains and geopolitics, has shown ...

A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface isn’t uniform — it’s a nanoscale patchwork of positive and negative charges ...