In the chaos of war, there’s nothing to stop Chinese firms from ravaging the landscape and extracting the minerals, which end up in China.

Union Minister for Coal and Mines G Kishan Reddy acknowledged India’s past reliance on China for critical rare earth supplies.

A recent assessment by Australian firm Earth Rarest estimated that Australia could supply up to 20 per cent of global demand for neodymium and praseodymium, but warned that a full replacement of Chinese supply across all 17 rare earth elements remains unlikely in the near term.

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth

China Northern Rare Earth and Inner Mongolia Baotou Steel Union — two of China's top rare earth producers — announced a price hike for third-quarter 2025 rare earth concentrates to CNY19,109 (approx.