Roderick Eggert, Viola Vestal Coulter Foundation Chair in Mineral Economics and deputy director of the Critical Materials Institute at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in a story on CNBC about the growing demand for the rare earth element neodymium and the one country that dominates its production worldwide. Watch the full segment below: Tesla Model 3 and other electric cars are driving up demand for a metal called neodymium and China controls the world's supply from CNBC.