Latest news on rare earths and strategic raw materials
TOPSTORY
Politics Increasingly Shapes Raw Material Markets – Market Report Q4/2025
What shaped the markets for critical raw materials in the fourth quarter?
NEWS
ANALYSES, BACKGROUND, INTERVIEWS
Super-Rich Rely on Alternative Investments
Goldman Sachs report shows the investment strategy of family offices.
UEFA EURO 2021: A Gallium Nitride Rainbow
A stadium lit up in rainbow colors during the UEFA EURO 2020 was to make a statement against Hungary’s hostile policy towards the LGBTQ+ community. This visual show of solidarity is made possible by a basic material: Gallium.
Problematicum and Plagiarism: Who Discovered Tellurium?
Accusations of plagiarism have been around for centuries. And the presentation of the then new element tellurium in 1798 in Berlin was overshadowed by a row about intellectual property.










