Strategic Materials Ledger
31 elements across four categories. Retail surveys and bulk benchmarks tracked separately. Every record carries a seller, date, quantity, and verification status.
Each reference price is assembled from those records, and the record pool is open: anyone can add a sourced observation for review, and the full dataset is free to download and cite.
The journalist's explainer to China's MOFCOM export controls on rare earths and strategic metals: what is controlled, what is suspended, what licensing means, and how to cite the lanthanides.io tracker.
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Why rare earth retail prices are 5x to 100x above bulk benchmarks: small lot processing, reactive metal handling, argon packaging, certification costs, and the economics of collector-scale demand.
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Retail rare earth pricing survey across eBay, Alibaba, and Amazon for 25+ elements. Retail premiums of 15× to 100× over Chinese FOB benchmarks.
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