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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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What Mining Operations Must Prove After Ramp-Up
Ramp-up is often treated as a visible milestone in mining. But the more revealing phase comes later, when an operation must prove that throughput, recoveries, mine sequence, continuity…
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Minerals Turn Strategic. Exploration Capital Stays Tactical.
Mining has entered a more strategic era, but exploration capital still flows mainly toward lower. risk, shorter horizon opportunities. That tension is now visible in the latest exploration,…
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When Mining Becomes Geopolitical, the State and Diplomacy Must Change
Mining is no longer operating only as an extractive sector. As critical minerals become part of industrial resilience, economic security and alliance architecture, both the State and diplomacy…
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PDAC 2026: When the Conversation Became Real Again
PDAC 2026 showed a more operational mining conversation. Permitting, timelines, costs, water, social licence, security, and execution moved to the centre, reflecting a sector increasingly focused on what…
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USA and Aligned Trading Partners, USTR Maps a Plurilateral Critical Minerals Deal
USTR has opened a formal consultation on a plurilateral critical minerals agreement with aligned trading partners. Behind the legal language, the notice begins to map a potential club…
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2026: No Industrial Economy (or Industrial Security) Without Formal Mining and Social Legitimacy
By 2026, the main policy and business forums are aligned on one point: industrial security is no longer just about technology and capital. It also depends on reliable…
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