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The global network of mining, refining, and trading rare earth elements used in electronics, EVs, and defense tech, dominated by China's processing capacity.
Lynas agreed to buy Meteoric Resources, developer of Brazil's Caldeira rare-earth mine, in a share swap valued at about A$968m. LS Cable & System, whose magnet plan runs on Lynas feedstock, gains a second mine behind the same supplier.
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Broad and MIT researchers watched single receptors on live cells for over 16 minutes and found that normal HER3 forms stable pairs. Cancer-linked HER3 mutations loosened those pairs, and the idea that this frees HER3 to drive signaling is still the team's working model.
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FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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Xi meets Trump on Wednesday holding a surplus built outside the American market. Two Pew readings that bear on enforcement, Canadian trust and German belief that Washington weighs other countries' interests, have each fallen by more than half.
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Beijing has bought almost half of its 25 million ton soybean commitment, about 150 of the 200 pledged Boeing aircraft are accounted for without named customers, and August rare earth magnet shipments to the US fell 20% from July. Trump and Xi meet Thursday.
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Andre Marinho says he wrote the March 19 presentation and that it was never shown to an American official. The commercial version of the same trade is already running, and USA Rare Earth closed Serra Verde for $2.8 billion in April.
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Energy Fuels says a major Japanese magnet manufacturer has approved its White Mesa terbium oxide with no further qualification needed. The customer is unnamed, and the mine-to-magnet chain is still unbuilt.
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Chifeng Gold and Xiamen Tungsten halted the Mengkang project effective August 8, 2026. Output had already fallen to 63.6 tonnes in the first quarter, from 998.56 tonnes for all of 2025.
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