Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...

Rare earth elements are important both for high-tech sectors, including electric cars, defence and electronics, smartphones ...

Soaring demand for copper, lithium, and nickel could make the metals more valuable than oil and gas by 2050, Barclays said.

The ask comes after China curbed exports of some of those minerals as part of its retaliation against American tariffs. China dominates the rare earth mineral market, mining about 60% of the world ...