Brazil Can Help Beat China at Its Rare-Earths Game

Published on October 17, 2025

In 1967, a helicopter from United States Steel Corp. carrying a team of geologists made an accidental discovery after landing in a remote corner of the Amazon rainforest: a giant iron-ore deposit that would become Carajás, one of the world’s richest mineral regions.

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