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The Defense Department is buying $400 million of stock in rare-earth mining company MP Materials as it seeks to boost ...

The lighting impulse breakdown performance of natural ester (NE) is lower than that of the traditional mineral oil, which is a key point that needs to be considered in high-voltage level and large ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Hon. Richard Kaijuka, Chairman of UCEM's Board of Trustees and former Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, offered a candid reflection on the inefficiencies in Uganda's budget execution. He ...

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Natural ester is a good substitute for mineral oil. It has been successfully applied in power transformers, and its application scale will continue to increase. With the aging of oil-paper insulation ...

China’s dominance over critical minerals in global supply chains was a powerful bargaining chip in trade talks between Beijing and Washington that concluded with both sides saying they have a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump wants China to lift restrictions on exporting rare earths and other critical minerals that Beijing imposed as part of a yearslong trade war.

However, Japan’s invasion of China restricted the sale of the critical mineral, driving the United States to shift toward domestic production in the Stibnite mine in Idaho.

Australian Critical Minerals has entered into a binding agreement to acquire Circuit Resources, which owns several gold and copper projects.