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Why China’s Rare Earth Magnet Advantage Is Difficult to Replicate
Investors keep hearing the same storyline: China dominates rare earth permanent magnets; therefore, the world should diversify supply.…
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CMR Podcast: Why Industrial Expertise Is Becoming the West’s Greatest Critical Minerals Asset
“The conversation is shifting from owning deposits to owning capabilities.” That observation from Critical Minerals Institute (CMI) Co-Chair…
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The Critical Minerals Economy Was Never About the Dollar
The debate over the future of the U.S. dollar has become one of the more persistent themes in…
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Critical Minerals Report (07.05.2026): The Hunt for Industrial Expertise Is On.
The past fourteen days materially advanced the shift of critical minerals from a supply-chain issue into a policy-and-security…
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Let’s Pretend: Subject Matter Illiteracy and the Rare Earth Industry
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking There…
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Private Capital, Not Government Funding, Is the Key to Securing Rare Earth Magnet Supply Chains
When the U.S. talks about securing supplies of critical materials for national defense, it’s natural to reach for…
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Jack-in-the-Stox: Iluka Resources (ASX: ILU) — A Lesson in Rare Earth Execution
In his ongoing Jack-in-the-Stox series, Jack Lifton comments on public companies, technologies, capital markets, supply chains and geopolitics. He is not a…
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CMR Podcast: Critical Minerals, China, and the Limits of G7 Cooperation
The Critical Minerals Report (CMR) Podcast is a new, twice-monthly series produced by the Critical Minerals Institute (CMI),…
