Western Rare Earths (WRE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Rare Earths Limited and an Arizona-based mining exploration company, hopes to unlock China's rare earth dominance through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) new Rare Earth Elements (REE) bioengineering research program.

A new luminescent sensor can detect rare earth elements (REEs) from complex samples of waste resources, such as acid mine drainage. The sensor, developed by researchers at Penn State University, makes use of a protein that binds to REEs and could be used to help develop domestic supplies of these metals. Rare earth metals are used in technologies such as smart phones, electric car batteries and energy-efficient lighting. A paper describing the sensor was published in American Chemical Society.

After PVW Resources NL conducted field visits at the Killi Killi East and Watts Rise mines of the Tanami project in northeastern Western Australia and obtained results of high-grade rare earth cuttings, the stock price soared to its highest point in more than nine years.

Greenland Resources Inc. recently announced that TetraTech Canada Inc. has prepared an independent mineral resource estimate of 281 million tonnes grading 0.18% molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), giving the company 661 million pounds of molybdenum in the measured and indicated resource category on its 100% owned Malmbjerg Molybdenum Project.