Weekly briefs

Every Monday OreOrbit assembles a short, dated summary of the week from its own data: deadlines, heat at the plants, conflict near the supply chain, tenders, imports and the top stories.

• The week in data, 26 Oct 202624 stories on the ten materials in the last 7 days, 5 of 31 plants with furnace-hot pixels, and 6 serious disaster alerts worldwide.
• China's export-control pause ends in 18 days, and Europe's new supply is still years awayBeijing's pause on its October 2025 controls on rare earths, battery materials and graphite anodes is due to end on 10 November. China has extended its wider tr