An outstanding list of selected titles with URLs on REE activities. For more detailed company information and reports, go directly to the specific company websites (see 'RE Companies' ). In this article section, you will find company and sector articles that are for reference in relation to future RE developments and investment decisions.
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Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) | American ...
https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/06/21/naturally-occurring-radioactive-materials-norm-15616
How China's mines rule the market of critical raw materials ...
https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinas-mines-rule-the-market-of-critical-raw-materials/a-57148375
Geological Surveys Unite to Improve Critical Mineral Security
https://eos.org/science-updates/geological-surveys-unite-to-improve-critical-mineral-security
PREVIOUS
[Campbell's 2020: "Sources of Rare Earth Elements in the U.S. and the World,": https://i2mconsultants.com/downloads/corp/REE-EMDPresentation8-31-20.pdf ]
[Campbell's 2021: "The U.S. Uranium and REE Supply Chain - A Brief Discussion" [https://i2mconsultants.com/downloads/corp/U-REESupplyChains2021.pdf]
2020 highlighted the frailties of mineral supply chains, on which the clean-energy transition relies:
Minerals essential for wind, solar, and high-tech, are anything but clean and green:
Does China Pose a Threat to Global Rare Earth Supply Chains?
https://chinapower.csis.org/china-rare-earths/
Rare Earths 101: Digging Up the Facts, with Jordy Lee ( https://www.resources.org/ )
Critical minerals and the new geopolitics
https://opinion.inquirer.net/135852/critical-minerals-and-the-new-geopolitics
China’s tryst with Rare Earth Elements: A monopoly over the global supply chain:
Rare Elements of Security:
https://www.airforcemag.com/article/rare-elements-of-security/
Securing the Critical Minerals Supply Chain:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/securing-critical-minerals-supply-chain
China's Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements - and Why We Should Care:
https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/10/chinas-monopoly-on-rare-earth-elements-and-why-we-should-care/
EU unveils action plan to secure access to critical raw materials:
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=0b9d4cbb-da66-4f25-8833-4d924b4980ba
Argus White Paper: How to build a rare earth supply chain - July 2020:
Looking beyond 5G: Why Europe is far from naïve when it comes to issues of strategic dependence:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2020/07/20/looking-beyond-5g-why-europe-is-far-from-naive-when-it-comes-to-issues-of-strategic-dependence/
US Vulnerable to China Rare Earth Monopoly, Researchers Find:
https://pezou.com/asia/us-vulnerable-to-china-rare-earth-monopoly-researchers-find-2.html
RENEWING RARE EARTH THREATS, CHINA DIGS DEEP FOR LEVERAGE IN TRADE WAR:
https://tradevistas.org/renewing-rare-earth-threats-china-digs-deep-leverage-trade-war/
Fasken: Critical Minerals Supply Crucial as World Changes:
GROWING DEMAND, STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE, SCARCITY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IS DRIVING SEARCH FOR NEW MITIGATION STRATEGIES:
Tangled: Why Global Supply Chains Are So Complex:
Argus White Paper: Mixed prospects for China’s rare earths market amid Covid-19 (June 2020):
Economic Statecraft: Options for Reducing U.S. Overdependence on Chinese-supplied Materials and Medications:
The tortuous path of China’s win-win strategy in Greenland:
https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/tortuous-path-china-win-win-strategy-greenland/
Stormcrow - Rare Earths Update 2020: Things are not Great, but They Will Get Better (19-page report):
Iran begins producing rare earth for first time
http://www.tehrantelegram.com/story-z24794196
Better international coordination needed for responsibly sourcing minerals used in green technology
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/news/responsible-sourcing-minerals-green-technology/
The next mining boom? Rare earths and the rise of Australia's 'other' minerals:
Push to Mine Minerals for “National Security” Is Creating New Market for Coal:
THE RACE FOR RARE EARTHS:
http://maximpactblog.com/race-rare-earth-minerals/
Despite Desperate U.S. Security Need, Federal/State Bureaucrats Prevent Oregon Mines From Extracting Precious/Rare Earth Metals ... China Dominates as a Result!: http://newradio.com/AMM/47258
Coals & Coal-associated Products Have the Highest Concentrations of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Minerals:
US takes long-term position on mineral supply
Everything You Know about Rare Earths Is Wrong:
https://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/everything-you-know-about-rare-earths-is-wrong/2019/11/14/
Australia’s Rare Earth Supply Could be the Key to US National Security:
Countering China’s Grip on Rare Earth Commodities
http://www.futuredirections.org.au/publication/countering-chinas-grip-on-rare-earth-commodities/:
A fractured world: how political divisions could impact mining investments:
How volcanoes recycle the Earth’s crust to uncover rare metals that are vital to green technology:
Rare earths: Is there a case for government intervention? (*Extensive RE sector review, past and present):
https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/rare-earths-is-there-a-case-for-government-intervention
Join the Science History Institute as we examine the rare earth elements and their impact on society.
https://www.sciencehistory.org/rare-earth-elements-project
GROWING DEMAND, STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE AND SCARCITY OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS IS DRIVING SEARCH FOR NEW MITIGATION STRATEGIES
US-China Trade War – Implications for India:
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/us-china-trade-war-implications-for-india/
An elemental issue:
https://www.dvidshub.net/news/343857/elemental-issue
The Arctic Spring:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/commons/2019-09-24/arctic-spring
Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI) Data Acquisition and Coordination:
Renewable Energy Will Only Be Possible With Massive Increases in the Supply of Critical Minerals:
Rare earth stocks on the ASX: The Ultimate Guide:
https://smallcaps.com.au/rare-earth-stocks-asx-ultimate-guide/
Using Rare Metals in Solar Panels:
https://www.azocleantech.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=932
Renewables and geopolitics: ‘There won’t be as much to fight over’:
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/08/22/renewables-and-geopolitics-there-wont-be-as-much-to-fight-over/
REE - Rare Earth Elements and their Uses:
https://geology.com/articles/rare-earth-elements/
RE and Transportation:
http://www.rareearthtechalliance.com/Applications/Transportation.html
Extracting the truth about rare earths:
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2019/08/01/extracting-truth-about-rare-earths
China’s rare earths exact a heavy price
The demand for rare earth metals is growing. Soon we will have to search for them outside our planet:
https://www.xiaomist.com/2019/07/the-demand-for-rare-earth-metals-is_26.html
RECYCLING RARE EARTH METALS:
https://www.mathys-squire.com/news-and-insights/news-articles/recycling-rare-earth-metals/
China faces up to the pollution and radioactive waste problems of rare earths mining and processing:
https://nuclear-news.net/2019/07/22/150359/
RENEWING RARE EARTH THREATS, CHINA DIGS DEEP FOR LEVERAGE IN TRADE WAR
How Geopolitics Could Collapse Rare Earth Element Supplies Part 2
https://blog.agchemigroup.eu/how-geopolitics-could-collapse-rare-earth-element-supplies-part-2/
Don’t Panic About Rare Earth Elements America’s Rare Earth Ultimatum: Rare Earths in High Demand
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dont-panic-about-rare-earth-elements/
American Military Companies Most Dependant on Chinese Rare Earth Supplies:
U.S.-China Impasse Threatens Rare Earth Trade:
https://safehaven.com/commodities/industrial-metals/US-China-Impasse-Threatens-Rare-Earth-Trade.html
Congress Agrees On $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan:
https://safehaven.com/news/Breaking-News/Congress-Agrees-On-2-Trillion-Infrastructure-Plan.html
Responsible minerals sourcing for renewable energy (Institute for Sustainable Futures):
https://earthworks.org/cms/assets/uploads/2019/04/MCEC_UTS-Full-embargoed.pdf
A Rare and Toxic Age
A journey into the complex and parallel mythologies of modern technology and rare earths.
https://increment.com/energy-environment/a-rare-and-toxic-age/
Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth by Keith Veronese
*Extremely extensive outline and discussion with a wide definition of RE. Includes looking at RE in terms of chemistry, mining, processing, recycling, economics, geography and politics etc.
Electric Vehicles Are Reshaping The Mining Industry
https://safehaven.com/news/Breaking-News/Electric-Vehicles-Are-Reshaping-The-Mining-Industry.html
The Geopolitics of Rare Earth Elements:
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/geopolitics-rare-earth-elements
The Future of Deep Seabed Mining:
https://chinadialogueocean.net/6682-the-future-of-deep-seabed-mining-will-be-decided-this-year/
Rare Earths: Shades of Grey – Can China Continue to Fuel our Global Clean and Smart Future
http://www.chinawaterrisk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/CWR-Rare-Earths-Shades-Of-Grey-2016-ENG.pdf
The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-hidden-environmental-toll-of-mining-the-worlds-sand
The Coming Scramble for Africa
A 2019 Resolution: Honesty in Energy Policy
On Decoupling US – China Tech, Industry Source: “Electronics industry is too reliant on Chinese manufacturing”:
The Real China Threat:
https://www.weeklystandard.com/tony-mecia/the-real-china-threat
This is the Dawning of the Age of … Niobium?
Forget the Age of Oil. The minerals powering our high-tech world are the next big thing in geopolitics.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/united-states-china-competition-strategy-critical-minerals.html
Race to the bottom? India plans deep dive for seabed minerals
Pre-empting the next rare-earth crisis:
https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1519221/pre-empting-next-rare-earth-crisis
Afghan minerals in the crosshairs of Blackwater's Erik Prince:
Why A Transition To Clean Energy Alone Is Not Enough For A Sustainable Future:
The cold military logic behind Trump's trade war: Andy Home:
Rare earths in the cross-hairs of new high-tech arms race:
https://www.investorideas.com/news/2018/main/10294RichardMills-HighTech.asp
NETL Rare Earth Recovery Projects Delivering Promising Results:
https://www.adamasintel.com/netl-ree-recovery-projects/
Clean energy and rare earths: Why not to worry:
https://thebulletin.org/2017/05/clean-energy-and-rare-earths-why-not-to-worry/
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to enhance public supervision of Big 6
TMR Advanced Rare-Earth Projects Index:
http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/metrics-indices/tmr-advanced-rare-earth-projects-index/
Hot Economic Warfare: Scrambling For Rare-Earth Minerals:
Zero Hedge (Weblog)21:56
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-05/hot-economic-warfare-scrambling-rare-earth-minerals
The Pacific interests of India and China http://southasiajournal.net/the-pacific-interests-of-india-and-china/
Elixsys Turns Coal Fly Ash from a Liability to an Asset:
Discarded waste could be a treasure trove of rare metals:
https://phys.org/news/2018-10-discarded-treasure-trove-rare-metals.html
Dysprosium - This heavy rare earth mineral could be a dark horse as electric car production rises:
RARE EARTHS REPORT
http://resourceworld.com/index.php/rare-earths-report/
What are rare earth elements? Four questions answered
https://phys.org/news/2018-08-rare-earth-elements.html#nRlv
Tesla's electric motor shift to spur demand for rare earth neodymium:
The 10th China Baotou Rare Earth Industry Forum 2018:
http://www.reht.com/sitefiles/services/cms/page.aspx?s=1&n=11&c=15876
Rare Earths, China, Tariffs and the REMX:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4208009-rare-earth-metals-re
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