REGION.AMERICAS
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 8–14, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at how the G7, Ontario, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Japan and the United States are moving critical minerals policy into finance, processing, permitting, industrial capacity and trusted supply chains.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 1–7, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how mineral security is moving into the practical work behind supply: strategic metals tariffs, U.S. rare earth finance, Canada–Korea stockpiling, Mozambique’s state ownership rules, Bolivia’s lithium instability and Botswana’s sovereign control strategy around De Beers.
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Codelco, Collahuasi and Technical Governance in Chilean Copper
Chile’s copper leadership shift at Codelco and Collahuasi is more than an executive succession. It reveals why technical governance, operational discipline and institutional maturity are becoming central to Chilean copper.
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Rare Earths Are Becoming a Talent War
Rare earths are becoming a talent war. Deposits matter, but reliable supply depends on the engineers, metallurgists, laboratories, public agencies and industrial systems able to convert mineral potential into qualified supply.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of May 25–31, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how mineral security is moving from strategic intent into the practical work of building supply through Quad investment architecture, U.S. state capacity, DRC fiscal sovereignty, Cameco’s uranium logistics, Rio Tinto’s aluminium expansion and Cobre Panamá’s institutional legitimacy challenge.
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Colombia’s Mining Election 2026: Viability, Legitimacy and Anomic Mining
In Colombia’s presidential race, mining is becoming a test of state capacity. Cepeda, Valencia and De la Espriella propose different paths, but the central question is the same: whether Colombia can build a formal mining system that is viable, legitimate and stronger than illegality.
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China’s Mineral Security Playbook Moves Into Law
China’s new Mineral Resources Regulation turns mineral policy into an operating system. Beijing is linking geology, project control, strategic minerals, reserves, emergency capacity, foreign investment and supply chain defense into one framework for resource security and industrial resilience.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of May 18–24, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how mineral security is being shaped through processing capacity, rare earth execution, copper province governance, Arctic mining infrastructure, Codelco’s institutional credibility, Sherritt’s nickel cobalt sanctions exposure and Zimbabwe’s small scale gold mining restrictions.
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What Kind of Governance Does a Mining Company Need?
Mining governance is entering a more demanding cycle. As minerals become strategic to energy, defence, infrastructure and industrial policy, boards must move beyond formal structures and understand the mine itself: the technical, territorial and material system that turns resources into reliable supply.
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Venezuela’s Mining Opening: Mineral Wealth, New Law, and the Three Tests of Viability
Venezuela has mineral wealth, a new mining law and renewed strategic relevance. But its real mining question is whether territory, governance, energy and infrastructure can convert mineral endowment into formal, traceable and durable supply.