mining

Like gold rushes of yore, the surest path to making money often comes from selling mining gear.

Gold also jumped again, pulling up mining stocks in Europe.

The area's coal mining past is never far away.

But soon, China became the world’s dominant rare-earth producer, in part because the country was more willing to tolerate the environmental costs of mining and processing than the U.S. or Europe.

China dominates global production and processing of these materials, and on Thurday announced new controls on the export of technologies used for the mining and processing of critical minerals.