rare-earth element
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USA Rare Earth will buy Brazil’s Serra Verde, which is seen as representing more than half the non-China heavy rare-earth element supply.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
Australia and Canada, for instance, have significant rare-earth resources that can help support America’s rare-earth element needs.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 21, 2025
Ramaco Resources, a metallurgical coal producer, is developing its Brook Mine, which holds significant heavy rare-earth element deposits.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
Iridium was the key, rare-earth element that tipped geologists off that an asteroid struck the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2013
The company’s Mountain Pass mine, discovered in 1949 by uranium prospectors who noticed local radioactivity, dominated rare-earth element production through the 1980s.
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2010