JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa is recognised as having the potential to play a significant role in the establishment of a more diversified supply chain of critical rare earths for the green energy transition. Inter…
Stage II of MP Materials' production plan is a success -- or would have been if the rare earths market hadn't crashed. Pity a commodities stock in a cyclical market even when the commodity in question is one of the hottest natural…
A research team led by the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been awarded a $1.9m federal grant to explore whether Southeast Alaskan seaweed is absorbing rare earths. The study will look at Alaskan seaweed near Bokan Mountain, a …
For a magnet to stick to a fridge door, several physical effects inside of it need to work together perfectly. The magnetic moments of its electrons all point in the same direction, even if no external magnetic field forces them t…
HO CHI MINH CITY -- Countries have tussled over the potential profits to be had by fishing and drilling for oil in the South China Sea, but a newer industry is emerging in the disputed waters: clean technology. Renewable energy an…
Researchers at the UAB and ICMAB have succeeded in bringing wireless technology to the fundamental level of magnetic devices. The emergence and control of magnetic properties in cobalt nitride layers (initially non-magnetic) by vo…