The decision marks one of several approvals still needed for the company’s long-standing plans to expand operations for about two decades across roughly 5,700 acres.

There is no question, Trump has turned world trade upside down. While he is not getting everything he wants, no one in the world is either willing or able to call his bluffs or stop him in his tracks.

The recent back-and-forth between Washington and Beijing over rare earth minerals looks technical on the surface, but it points to a deeper shift in global leverage. The 17 metallic elements —vital ...

In the spring of 1979, an experimental mining machine descended nearly five kilometers into the Pacific Ocean and etched a ...