Two rare plants recently sold on the platform for $16,000 and $26,000, setting a new high as the most expensive plants ever purchased via the app. This milestone follows another historic sale in late ...

The processing market is dominated by China, but Australia is building its capabilities in an attempt to boost the domestic industry.

Mining tycoon Gina Rinehart is a big backer of a handful of public companies working to break China’s near monopoly on the vital metals used to make everything from missiles to robots and CT scanners.

The issue is that the U.S. imposition of tariffs on China, in a dramatic trade war, led China before May to ban the export of heavy rare earth metals to the U.S. In October, stricter export controls ...