Gold, rare earths top TSXV’s performers
Gold’s surge to record highs and renewed interest in rare earths did more than lift producers in 2025, it propelled some of the industry’s riskier themes to the top of…
Rare Earths
JV Video: The hidden foundation – how rare earths built the modern world
The technologies shaping the future all rely on a single, fragile link: rare earth elements (REEs). These 17 metals are obscure to most — but together, they form the hidden…
Generals join critical-mineral boardroom arms race
Critical-mineral juniors are snapping up retired U.S. military leaders to help win Washington funding, echoing a playbook uranium producers pioneered years ago when they recast domestic nuclear fuel as a…
Indaba: New Cold War for minerals tests Africa’s ability to leverage huge resources
Africa’s vast critical-mineral endowment has thrust the continent to the centre of intensifying rivalries between the United States, China and other powers, but its future will depend more on governance…
Opinion: Canadians must match American urgency in the race for critical minerals
In the cavernous halls of the U.S. State Department last week, something unusual was on display: earnest cooperation rather than the usual diplomatic theatre. The inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial wasn’t…
Indaba: South Africa ties mining reform to continent’s $30T industrialization push
South Africa has begun deploying its critical minerals strategy and overhauling key regulations as part of a push to revive exploration, expand downstream beneficiation and fix infrastructure bottlenecks, ministers said…
Critical Metals confirms high-grade HREEs at Tanbreez project in Greenland
Critical Metals (Nasdaq: CRML) says drilling at its Tanbreez project in Greenland indicates the potential to further grow the resource of what is ranked as one of the world’s largest…
Video: Rare earths’ outsized leverage
Rare earth elements may be obscure to most consumers, but they sit inside the magnets, motors and sensors that run much of the modern economy. In a four-part audio series,…
US backs Altona’s Mozambique rare earths project
Shares in Altona Rare Earths (LSE: REE) soared after the company said the United States’ government confirmed its intention to support development of its Monte Muambe joint venture project in…
US mineral supply vulnerable to China chokehold: report
A new report by the United States Geological Survey reveals that the U.S. has grown more reliant on foreign imports of minerals over the past year, highlighting the increased urgency…
Utah rare earths developer Ionic eyes 2027 IPO
Rare earths developer Ionic Mineral Technologies is said to be considering an initial public offering as it prepares to release a new study on the Silicon Ridge project in Utah. …
Infographic: North America’s next rare earths mine?
Rare earths – essential components in electronics, defence applications and electric vehicle batteries – are hot geopolitical items as Western countries seek to secure supplies outside of Chinese control. Exploration…