Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth ...

Anyone who has ever wondered what their neck of the woods looked like when even extinct species like dinosaurs roamed the ...

As illustrated in the map below, based on data from the latest U.S. Geological Survey report on rare earths, China holds the ...

rare earth minerals are relatively abundant the world over, but not often found in concentrated deposits. This makes extraction and refinement a complex and costly process. The map above ...

Project co-lead, Professor Sergei Lebedev, also from Cambridge Earth Sciences, is a geophysicist who uses earthquake waves to 'see' into the Earth's interior, similar to how sonar pings can pick out ...