June 12, 2025 Trump mulls using defense powers to fund rare earth projects Officials are discussing using the Defense Production Act to tap financing, loans and other means for rare earths element-related projects.
June 12, 2025 Gold price surges to one-month high on Middle East tensions Spot gold is closing in on the $3,400 mark for the first time since early May.
June 12, 2025 Column: Demand destruction can help break China’s rare earths chokehold Western automakers have chosen to ignore the historical precedent and doubled down on a technology that remains almost totally beholden to Beijing's export whims.
June 12, 2025 Infographic: Who controls the rare earths shaping the future? This graphic breaks down global extraction at the mine level.
June 11, 2025 Perpetua Resources secures $400M equity financing for Stibnite project in Idaho The Stibnite project holds an estimated 148-million-pound antimony reserve — the only identified in the US.
June 11, 2025 Canada eyes further moves to counter foreign steel dumping ArcelorMittal, Cleveland-Cliffs and Algoma Steel Group are among Canada’s top producers.
June 11, 2025 Gold rises on bets of Fed interest rate cuts; platinum surges Bullion rose 0.3% while platinum extended this year’s surge to more than 40%.
June 11, 2025 From boom to bust: battery metal prices tumble as supply floods market Despite rising EV sales, the market fundamentals for lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite and recycled materials worsen.
June 11, 2025 Gold surpasses euro as second-largest reserve asset: European Central Bank Bullion made up about 20% of the global official reserves at the end of 2024, surpassing the euro's 16%, the ECB says in its annual report.
June 11, 2025 Cyclic Materials to open $25M rare earths plant in Canada The facility in Kingston, Ontario, will mark the startup's first commercial-scale processing and research centre unit.
Column: Europe falling behind in critical minerals race In 2024, 95% of EU rare earth imports came from just three countries: China, Malaysia and Russia, according to Eurostat. January 14, 2026 | 09:53 am
