Auxico Resources of Canada is planning to build a 10,000 square meter rare earth refinery in a free trade zone in the city of Santa Marta, Colombia. The plant will have a throughput of 36,000 tons per year at an estimated cost of $116.2 million.

A protein sensor developed by researchers that emits a green light when it encounters terbium, a rare earth element, could boost U.S. progress in mining rare earth elements in acid mine drainage.

Researchers in China have developed a hybrid film based on two-dimensional WO₃ nanoparticles to improve the performance of vanadium oxide liquid flow batteries (VRFB).

American Resources Corporation recently announced another milestone for the company with the final permitting of its first rare earth and key element purification and isolation facility currently under construction in Noblesville, Indiana.