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Minerals

Energy & Commodities

US offers to buy stakes in Australian critical minerals companies

A warming planet is bringing heavier downpours, along with more volatile cycles of dry and wet spells, which can further destabilise the fragile equilibrium that holds the piles of waste rock together.
Opinion & Features

A trillion-tonne threat hangs over critical minerals

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is due to meet with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Oct 20, said in the interview that his conversations with the US president have been “warm, constructive, positive and optimistic.”
Global Enterprise

Australia’s Albanese touts minerals reserve ahead of Trump talks

The Weda Bay Industrial Park (WBIP), a major nickel processing and smelting hub, in Lelilef Sawai, Indonesia, April 18, 2025. The country is a key producer of minerals like copper, cobalt and nickel.
ASEAN Business

US says Indonesia to cut tariffs, ease critical mineral limits with deal

China holds major reserves of several key minerals including the vast majority of the world’s graphite, which is crucial for electric vehicles.
Energy & Commodities

US, Japan, India, Australia pledge mineral cooperation on China jitters

China accounts for almost 70% of the world’s production of rare earths.
International

G7 works to secure critical minerals in face of China curbs

China has responded with its own tariffs and is leveraging its dominance in key supply chains to persuade Trump to back down.
Global Enterprise

Global alarms rise as China’s critical mineral export curbs takes hold

FILE PHOTO: Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/ ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.//File Photo
Opinion & Features

Critical minerals rise up global economic and political agenda

(FILES) In this handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on April 26, 2025, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) meets with US President Donald Trump (L) on the sidelines of Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. The United States and Ukraine on April 30, 2025 signed a minerals deal after a two-month delay, in what President Donald Trump's administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid. Ukraine said it secured key interests after protracted negotiations, including full sovereignty over its own rare earths, which are vital for new technologies and largely untapped. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Opinion & Features

Why Zelensky – not Trump – may have ‘won’ the US-Ukraine minerals deal

China is a top global producer of 30 of the 50 minerals considered critical by the US Geological Survey, for example, and has been curtailing exports in recent months.
Global Enterprise

Trump orders tariff probe on all US critical mineral imports

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