The battery in a single Toyota Prius contains more than 20 pounds of the rare earth element lanthanum; the magnet in a large wind turbine may contain 500 pounds or more of neodymium. The U.S ...
The Pentagon is betting $4.2 million that a Nebraska company can help it break China's near-monopoly on rare-earth minerals ...
Rare earth elements are crucial to many technologies, and scientists say the U.S. could boost extraction from domestic ...
China currently makes 92% of rare-earth element magnets that are used in EVs and power-generating windmills and also makes ...