Critical minerals are having a moment. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is at the White House to talk up Australia's rich ...

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The Australian prime minister said the critical minerals deal takes the U.S.-Australia relationship "to the next level." ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright went to Wyoming last week to cut the ribbon on the first new rare earth mine in the U.S. since the 1950s. Telling the assembled guests and reporters that the “Brook Mine” ...

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Now, researchers like Elizabeth Holley, an associate professor of Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, are ...

President Trump signed a critical-minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Monday, as the U.S. seeks to reduce its dependence on China's rare-earth resources.

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President Donald Trump is formally meeting with the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for the first time at the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with President Donald Trump on Friday to sign an agreement that would allow the United States access to Ukraine’s mineral reserves. The deal would give ...

A Joplin native’s lifelong collection of minerals and rocks has been donated to t History & Mineral Museum, expanding the pieces that can be displayed and studied. Ava Gager Smith, a 1957 graduate of ...