The Junior Education Center provided an interactive, education-packed corner of fun and learning for all ages at the Tucson Gem & Mineral Show from Feb. 9-12. The center was located at the Tucson ...

Recently, there has been a lot of news about “rare earths” and “critical minerals.” Critical minerals are the blanket term for a large group of elements ranging from nickel, silica, and lithium to ...

A Look at the Industries Reliant on Critical Minerals, and the Countries That Mine Them Hiranmayi Srinivasan is a former Associate Editor for Investopedia. She covered personal finance topics such as ...

Gold has both economic and cultural significance to human societies but, as Liang Zhang and David Groves explain, we owe its presence in the Earth’s crust to repeating cycles of plate tectonics.

A guide to the rare resources behind EVs, chips and defense tech — and the startups reshaping how they’re sourced.

America’s support for Ukraine boils down to the eastern European country’s lucrative mineral deposits, Alabama’s senior senator claimed Wednesday. “It’s all about the minerals over there,” Sen. Tommy ...

Gracelin Baskaran testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the need for the United States to develop a robust critical minerals supply chain that both sets ...

In recent weeks, you've likely heard a lot about rare-earth substances, thanks to President Trump's stalled efforts to secure a minerals deal with Ukraine and his talk of annexing Greenland. These ...

President Donald Trump says the United States and Ukraine are poised to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals “and other ...