TechJun 15, 2026
How three of the country's biggest conglomerates are trying to break China's stranglehold on the metals that power EVs, weapons, and the global green economy.
China turned off the tap on rare earths in April 2025, and India’s industrial stockpile had just three weeks left. Now Reliance, Adani, and Vedanta are racing to mine a stretch of beach sand in Andhra Pradesh that holds nearly half the country’s rare earth ore — but processing, not digging, is the real battle. A deep dive into the new global scramble for the metals that power EVs, weapons, and the green economy
