India Pours Over $10 Billion Into Rare Earths to Cut China Dependence

India is moving to break China’s grip on rare earths, launching dedicated mining-to-manufacturing corridors across four coastal states. The 2026–27 budget sharply boosts clean-energy spending, with nearly $10 billion targeted at renewables, rooftop solar, agri-solar, and a new $2.2 billion CCUS program. Nuclear power is a core pillar of India’s energy strategy, with major funding, tax incentives, and R&D support …

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Critical Minerals For What And At What Cost?

Climate Justice Taranaki raises serious concerns over the government’s zealous push for critical minerals mining. This week, Prime Minister Chris Luxon will attend a summit in Washington to negotiate an alliance over critical minerals with twenty other countries, including the G7 members – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, as well as India, Australia and others. …

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Copper Rebounds as China Industry Group Calls for Stockpiling

Copper rebounded as a metals selloff led by silver and gold eased and a state-backed industry group called for China to boost its strategic reserves of the crucial industrial metal. China should expand the size of the reserves and also work with major state-owned producers to boost commercial stockpiles, according to the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, which held an …

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