Vast heaps of crushed brown rock hem the Indian Ocean at Western Australia’s Parker Point port — each a stockpile of 200,000 tons of iron-ore, ready to be poured into a procession of bulk ...

The enormous Bayan Obo iron ore and rare earths mine, 80 miles north of the city in the Gobi Desert, produces most of China's light rare earths, like lanthanum for oil refining, and most of its ...