South Korea will seek closer cooperation with China to stabilize supplies of rare earth minerals critical to its high-tech industries, the government said Thursday.

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Rare earth elements are used in a wide variety of modern technologies, from wind turbines to phones. While the elements aren't all that rare, they are difficult to extract and purify. A team led by researchers from Northeastern University in the US has developed a new way to pull REEs from waste left behind from coal mining,

Signed at the Asean Summit with the US president, the deal remains under negotiation as Malaysian PM Anwar seeks further written assurances The new reciprocal trade agreement between Malaysia and the United States contains no provisions granting Washington exclusive access to Malaysia's rare earth elements (REE),

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The Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research (AMD), is carrying out exploration and augmentation of minerals of rare earth group elements along coastal and inland placer sands, as well as in hard rock terrains,

Japan said Monday it has successfully drilled and retrieved deep-sea sediment containing rare earth minerals from the seabed near a remote island, as the country seeks to reduce its reliance on China.

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Stillwater's USA Rare Earth has secured $1.6B in CHIPS Act dollars to build domestic rare earth magnet production, reducing U.S. reliance on China.