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Its plant in Kuantan, Malaysia, was struggling to separate out chemically similar rare earths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

The real wake-up call came last year when China imposed export controls on rare earths, sending shockwaves across supply chains globally.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

Minor materials, such as rare earths, tungsten and uranium, are small in volume but critical in value, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

For years, rare earths attracted little attention outside mining circles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

A universe in which there were two earths within one sphere of water was no longer an Aristotelian universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton