Some posts on rare earth materials

China’s Rare Earths Aren’t as Rare as You Think: When the country tried to choke off supply of the metals before, the world found ways to adapt (2025)

China's Threat To Restrict Exports of Rare Earth Minerals to the U.S. Is an Empty Bluff: China's 2010 export restrictions on rare earth compounds failed then, and they would fail now  (2019)

Rare Earths Crisis in Retrospect (2018)

China’s Rare-Earths Bust: A new Honda engine shows the limits of Beijing’s coercion (2016)

The rare earth crisis was exaggerated and what wasn’t exaggerated the market alleviated (2014)

How the Great Rare-Earth Metals Crisis Vanished: China's attempt to control the market for materials essential to the tech industry is turning to dust (2014)