Duggan Flannakin: Forging and vaulting ahead for critical minerals

While the nation was focused on an ongoing personal tragedy and the Super Bowl, representatives of 54 nations met last Wednesday in Washington, DC, at the request of Secretary of State Marco Rubio to plot out a pathway to mutual independence from the Chinese stranglehold on access to critical minerals and rare earths.

Lushington Brady: Japan Claims Deep Sea Mining Success

As I wrote recently, deep-sea mining is fast moving out of the realm of science fiction. While the Deepwater Horizon disaster has put the brakes on undersea oil drilling, oil is far from the only resource to be found in plenty on the ocean floor. Of critical importance in the current geopolitical climate are rare earth minerals.

Jonathan Paul: Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for green technologies, but whose production and sustainability are highly sensitive – plus other valuable minerals and metals, and a huge volume of hydrocarbons including oil and gas.