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Swedish mining company LKAB discovers Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements in Kiruna, Sweden.
2023-01-12

Burundian Minister for Mining Ibrahim Uwizeye suspends the operations of several international mining companies, including one running the only rare-earth mine in Africa, saying they were not properly sharing the profits and that the mining contracts signed were "unbalanced".
2021-07-23

Rare-earth metals are discovered in KELT-9b, an exoplanet located 650 light-years away from Earth.
2019-05-28

China relaxes controls over the export of rare-earth elements after losing a case brought by the United States at the World Trade Organization.
2015-01-5

The bodies and ashes of twenty Malaysian victims who died when the flight was shot down over Ukraine in July have been returned to Kuala Lumpur.
2014-08-22

China announces plan to close one-third of the nation's 23 rare-earth mines and about half of 99 smelting companies.
2012-08-8

China establishes a rare-earth association in order to streamline the sector's development.
2012-04-9

The Philippines military claim to have killed Abu Sayyaf leader Umbra Jumdail, Malaysian Zulkifli bin Hir, a leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, and Singaporean Abdullah Ali.
2012-02-2

Premier Wen Jiabao of the People's Republic of China denies reports that China is using its control over minerals crucial to high technology (called "rare-earth") as a bargaining chip, especially in a dispute with Japan over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing-boat captain
2010-10-8