So-called rare earth elements refer to 17 chemically-similar, silvery-white elements that are used to make magnets – which in ...

The US trade deal with China seeks to resolve a major sticking point of their ongoing trade war: rare-earth minerals.

The element radium can be found in extremely tiny amounts in the Earth’s crust and oceans, and in its pure form it is a soft silvery metal. To an untrained eye, a small piece of radium may look like a ...

Rare earths are a group of 17 elements including 15 silvery-white metals called lanthanides, or lanthanoids, plus scandium and yttrium. Rare earths or the magnets which they are sometimes made into ...