REGION.AMERICAS
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of July 13–19, 2026
This week covers Wagerup gallium, U.S. FAST-41 mining permits, Chile’s investment framework, American Samoa offshore minerals, Europe’s Raw Materials Mechanism and Ghana’s mining law reform.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of July 6–12, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers Canada’s Critical Minerals Accelerator, the Hermosa permitting decision, Europe’s RAMP partnership, China–Namibia beneficiation, Canadian mining innovation and Kamoa-Kakula’s operating performance.
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Argentina: From RIGI to Mineral Power
Argentina is using RIGI to convert geological potential into long duration mining investment, linking capital stability with federal execution, infrastructure, critical-minerals diplomacy and territorial legitimacy. As lithium expands and copper advances, the country’s mineral power will depend on turning investment activation into financed projects, operating supply, domestic capability and durable public confidence.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 29–July 5, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at how mineral security moves from strategy into usable supply through coal based feedstocks, Red Chris infrastructure, India-Japan geological cooperation, Sangdong tungsten, Adani Copper and Cerro Colorado.
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The Lithium Processing Paradox
Australia’s lithium experience reveals a central paradox of critical mineral strategy: processing can be strategically necessary before it is commercially easy. A world class mine does not automatically create midstream capability. Lithium conversion requires industrial learning, customer qualification, process control, working capital and time. The mine may remain strategic, while the conversion plant must still…
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 22–28, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers U.S. Army critical minerals leases, EU-Brazil raw materials diplomacy, Codelco and Anglo American’s copper agreement, Queensland’s fund expansion, India’s rare earth magnet tender and Greenland’s Kuannersuit decision.
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Mining Due Diligence Has Three Clients
Mining due diligence often reviews individual disciplines but misses the interfaces where projects fail. This article argues that effective diligence must serve three clients: the investor, the operator and the State, by testing whether value is real, the operating plan is executable and the project can be governed without creating hidden liabilities.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 15–21, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers the G7 critical minerals alliance, Canada’s new project partnerships, U.S. rare earth financing, Red Chris, Cobre Panamá and BHP’s Jansen update.
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The Practitioner Gap
As mining becomes more strategic, the people who understand how geology becomes supply must help shape the decisions that govern it. This article introduces the practitioner gap and explains why closing it is essential to stronger, more accountable formal mining.
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Brazil: How a Private Company Built a Global Niobium Industry
Brazil’s niobium story shows how mineral power can be built through private industrial execution. Through CBMM, Araxá and decades of processing, technology and market creation, Brazil turned geological endowment into a global niobium industry.