Are Rare Earth Metals The Next Oil?

The Next Oil?: Rare Earth Metals -- Elliot Brennan, The Diplomat Rare earth metals are quickly becoming the next important strategic resourc...

Pentagon And Japan Are Working together To Break China's Monopoly On Rare Earths

A rare earth mine in China. Rare earths are essential to many technology products, and China provides most of the world’s supply. Reuters Pe...

How Beijing Cornered The Rare Earths Market

China Digs It: How Beijing Cornered the Rare Earths Market -- Damien Ma, Foreign Affairs In September 2010, after Japan arrested a Chinese f...

What’s The U.S. Government Policy On Strategic Resources?

A Government At War With Itself -- Daniel McGroarty, Real Clear World What’s U.S. Government policy on strategic resources? Not oil - where ...

Is America Getting Ready For A Resource War?

Has America Reported For Duty In The Resource Wars? -- Daniel McGroarty, Real Clear World March has been a big month in the Resource Wars - ...

Is A Global Conflict Over Rare Metals Looming?

Are Global Metal Wars Looming? -- Real Clear World Terbium, Erbium, Lanthanum, Lithium, Cobalt, Cerium: This partial list is a high-tech hod...

Congress Wants To Know Why Are We Dependent On Rare Earths From China

Western Lawmakers Push Gates On China’s Minerals Dominance -- The Hill Lawmakers are questioning whether the Pentagon is taking seriously en...

The U.S. Moves To Break China's Monopoly Over Rare Earths

Image: BMacZero , Public Domain California Mine Will Reopen to Meet U.S. Demand for Rare Earth Materials -- Popular Science Japan has alread...

U.S. Vulnerable To It's Dependence On China's Rare Earths

China now produces nearly all the world’s supply of the minerals. David Gray/Reuters U.S.: Rare-Earth Supplies Face Possible Disruptions -- ...

What's Next For Rare Earths

Get Ready for Rare Earths 2.0 -- Real Clear World Followers of the Rare Earths debate, get ready for a feeling video gamers know all too wel...

As Talk Of Strategic Rare Earth Scarcities Increase, The U.S. Takes Stock Of It's Own Supplies

A new report finds significant deposits of rare earth elements in 14 states, with the largest known deposits at Mountain Pass, California; B...

China States That Rare Earths Will Not Be Used As A "Bargaining Tool", But No One Is Listening

Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state on a state visit to Japan, welcomed the statement on Thursday but said that further clarificatio...

China's Monopoly Over Rare Earths Raises Economic And National Security Concerns

Germany To Raise Alarm Over China Rare Earths Restrictions at G-20 -- New York Times BERLIN — Stung by Chinese muscle-flexing over minerals ...

China Limits Rare Earth Exports, Raising Concerns Among Other Countries On What Is China's Intentions

China Said To Widen Its Embargo Of Minerals -- New York Times HONG KONG — China, which has been blocking shipments of crucial minerals to Ja...

U.S. Bomb Output Is Now Limited By China Metal Quotas

Photo: Motors in missiles like the JDAM might be three times as big without advanced magnets. The JDAM has been used extensively in Iraq an...

Are We About To Fight Wars Over Strategic Metals?

Is This The Start Of The Element Wars? -- New Scientist Warnings have already surfaced about water wars. Now the prospect of "element w...

China Flexes Its Power Over Rare Earths

Didymium oxide, a combination of neodymium and praseodymium, two rare earth elements is shown at at Molycorp Mineral's Mountain Pass Min...

Why China's Monompoly Over 'Rare Earth" Minerals Should Concern Everyone

A rare earth mine in China. Rare earths are essential to many technology products, and China provides most of the world’s supply. Reuters Ch...