Europe Battles Complacency in Race for Rare Earths: Supply Lines

It was only a few months ago when China grabbed the world’s attention with sweeping export controls on critical minerals and rare earth elements. Beijing’s flex gave the US, Europe and other economies fresh momentum to derisk their supply chains from crucial Chinese inputs.

Fast forward to today, much of the daily attention for policymakers and companies has moved to responding to and coping with the fallout of the Iran war. But even as the Trump administration is preoccupied with the conflict, some of the president’s aides are busy identifying critical minerals and rare earths projects that the US ...