This article delivers a novel economic analysis of US dependence on China for rare-earth elements and sheds light how Western nations may exploit the limitations limit pricing to break China’s global monopoly in element production refinement. analytical framework, supported by comprehensive literature review, application microeconomic industrial organization concepts, two case-study scenarios, ...

Significant academic research and moderate commercial process innovation on rare-earth element (REE) processing have been underway for decades. The last several years seen exponential growth in due to demand of REE that is threatened by supply risks environmental obstacles. industry appears be at the intersection strong, but conflicting forces, including public political support a Green Revolut...