Brussels is speeding up its rare earths talks with Brazil after a US firm locked in Serra Verde, the country’s only rare earths mine, for 15 years.

Brazil holds the world’s 2nd-largest reserves and wants to become a processor of critical minerals—but it refuses to choose sides between Washington and Beijing | World News

A Brazilian-owned miner is betting up to $580m on a Brazil rare earths plant, a rare local challenger in a field dominated by foreign capital.