Heavy rare-earth elements include dysprosium, terbium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and yttrium. They aren’t as abundant and are more expensive to produce than the lighter elements, ...

Although a wide variety of metals are traded on the commodity metals exchange, only a select few are considered precious. There's a limited amount of palladium, platinum, gold and silver buried in the ...

Decades after some cleanup began at the Federated Metals site in Hammond and Whiting, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added it to the Superfund National Priorities List of the nation’s ...

BRUSSELS, March 25 (Reuters) - The European Commission published a list of 47 strategic projects on Tuesday to boost the EU's production of 14 of the 17 materials it deems critical for its energy ...

Many of the metals needed to feed the surging global demand for high-tech products, from smart phones to solar panels, cannot be replaced, leaving some markets vulnerable if resources become scarce, ...