In 2020 Trump declared a national emergency regarding US dependence on a range of critical minerals. Will Trump roll back clean-energy spending? — Richard Mills Trump has already announced that his administration will “pursue a path towards US energy dominance” that will require substantial ...
But China’s dominance as a supplier gives it an overwhelming cost advantage, and U.S. resource companies face strong pressures over the potential environmental impact of mines and refineries. What might happen next? Since then-President Trump launched a trade war against Beijing that ha...
B.C., on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Wilkinson said the world cannot allow Russia and China to have global dominance over critical minerals.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
China’s Dominance Despite being the world’s biggest carbon polluter, China is the largest producer of most of the world’s critical minerals for the green revolution. China produces 60% of all rare earth elements used as components in high-technology devices, including smartphones and computers...
This junior miner is one to watch as it now finds itself at the heart of a battle for global dominance, while the U.S. and its Western allies make their biggest push yet to reduce reliance on China and establish alternative critical minerals supply chains. Other companies t...
China's dominance in the production of rare earth elements (REEs) peaked with that nation producing 97% of them in 2010; this number already has dipped to 90% in 2012 as mines in other nations are coming online, according to REE expert Karl Gschneidner Jr., a professor at Iowa State ...
A couple hours outside Houston, in a remote field near a Dow Chemical Co. plant, America’s bid to undercutChina’s grip onthe global supply of rare earth minerals critical to high technology has yet to break ground. Even when it does, China’s dominanc...
But China’s dominance as a supplier gives it an overwhelming cost advantage, and U.S. resource companies face strong pressures over the potential environmental impact of mines and refineries. What might happen next? Since then-President Trump launched a trade war against Beijing that has ...
“There is no question that the world has become too dependent on China, especially in the raw ingredients of the clean energy economy,” academics David G. Victor and Michael R. Davidson write in a recent Brookings p...
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is “very concerned” about China’s dominance of the global critical minerals supply chain. "It's one of the pieces of the supply chain that we're very concerned about in the United States," Granholm told CNBC February 14 when discussing China’s gr...