#critical minerals

Parisite, one of the few rare-earth carbonate minerals, grown on galena in a specimen from the Mountain Pass mine in California.

Critical minerals

Lula's re-election puts Washington's hopes of quick access to Brazil's rare earths on hold

A ridge above Pituffik Space Base in northern Greenland, with Mount Dundas behind it, in April 2026.

Trump says massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is about to begin in Greenland

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, the court that runs Brazil's elections and publishes the count, photographed in 2012.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil's October 25 runoff will pick the government that negotiates America's 25% tariff and its access to Brazilian rare earths