Articles & Essays
Longer-form analysis on mining, critical minerals and strategic models.
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Essays and analytical pieces exploring geopolitics, supply chains, institutions, legitimacy and critical minerals through a strategic, non-ideological lens. Designed for investors and decision-makers who need depth and signal.
Latest articles & essays
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Mining Viability
Technical and economic feasibility can justify a mining project, but it does not guarantee production. Mining viability asks whether that project can become sustained supply inside a real…
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The Mining Paradox: The Legitimacy Gap Behind Modern Life
Modern life depends on formal mining, from health care, food systems and infrastructure to energy, defense and artificial intelligence. The Mining Paradox examines why legitimacy is now strategic…
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What Makes a Mining Project Financeable?
Critical minerals demand has changed the mining conversation, but every project still has to prove that it can become a financeable business. This article examines the questions capital…
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Anomic Mining: Why Illegal Mining Is Not Always the Full Diagnosis
Anomic Mining describes the moment when illegal mining stops being only an activity outside the law and begins to reveal a deeper institutional condition, a territory where legality…
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The Return of the Material Economy
The World Bank’s new industrial policy report signals more than a technical adjustment in development thinking. It reflects a broader return of production, strategic sectors, and state capacity…
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Beyond ESG: Rethinking Sustainability in Mining
As the material economy returns, mining is forcing a more serious question: not whether sustainability matters, but whether the dominant sustainability frameworks are still fit for sectors shaped…
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