Two planned mineral sands mines in western Victoria have received approvals for environmental plans. Farmers near Swan Hill and Horsham say the Victorian government has ignored their concerns.

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The mineral embargo is the latest piece of an extensive initiative by China over the past nearly two decades to replace imports with domestic production. On Dec. 3, the same day the Ministry of ...

Acceleron is developing a fusion method that uses lower temperatures than typical fusion experiments. As the global energy need is rising, both public institutions and private companies have ...

The nation has signaled it’s prepared to hit back harder still, in ways that could inflict serious economic pain on its biggest economic rival. MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers ...

This announcement likely means that over 20 mineral items – encompassing both metals and chemicals – are banned from being exported from China to the United States. The resulting supply ...

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China has banned rare mineral exports like gallium and germanium to the US, intensifying trade tensions. The move threatens US tech and defense industries reliant on these materials. On Tuesday ...

The Chinese ban on superhard mineral exports could provoke particular unhappiness in America’s national security community. That ban appeared to be aimed at Chinese exports of tungsten ...

Its aim is to produce nuclear fusion, a near-limitless form of clean energy generated by the exact opposite reaction the world’s current nuclear energy is based on — instead of splitting atoms ...