REGION.AMERICAS
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of May 11–17, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly tracks how critical minerals are moving deeper into foreign policy, public finance, geoscience, permitting and state-owned mining governance.
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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 system of law, territory, capital, legitimacy and institutional trust.
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Chile Day Toronto: Chile Wants Investors Back. Mining Needs a Country Level Commitment
Chile Day Toronto 2026 through a mining viability lens: Chile wants investors back, but mining capital will look for permitting discipline, fiscal visibility, infrastructure, water security and political continuity.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of May 4–10, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how critical minerals strategy is moving into operating systems through G7 trade architecture, Australia-Japan project pipelines, U.S. Project Vault, Canada’s cobalt sulfate refinery, Argentina’s federal mining coordination, Greenland rare earth logistics and Grasberg’s copper supply recovery watch.
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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 infrastructure in the era of Geopolitical Mining.
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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 should ask before committing to a mining asset, across geology, permitting, infrastructure, revenue visibility, funding strategy and execution.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of April 27–May 3, 2026
Critical minerals strategy is moving into execution. This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers U.S. land access, Canada’s sovereign capital fund, KoBold’s copper project in Zambia, seabed mining permits and rare earth consolidation.
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Saudi Arabia’s Mineral Strategy: Vision 2030 in an Era of Geopolitical Challenges
Saudi Arabia’s mineral strategy is advancing from a mineral-industrial base into more strategic segments of the critical minerals economy. Vision 2030, Ma’aden, PIF, Manara and the Future Minerals Forum have given the Kingdom strong foundations; the next phase will unfold in a more contested geopolitical landscape shaped by U.S. critical minerals policy, Gulf resilience and…
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The United States as a Strategic Enabling State in the Era of Geopolitical Mining
The United States is emerging as a case study of the strategic enabling State in critical minerals: coordinating capital, markets, defense, alliances and processing to turn mineral exposure into material power.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of April 20–26, 2026
This week’s signals ranged from U.S.-EU trade instruments, Chile’s push on permitting and critical minerals cooperation, and Brazil’s value add strategy to Norway’s state led planning at Fen, fresh finance for the Lobito Corridor, and the Iran war’s growing pressure on diesel and sulfur, together showing a more operational phase of critical minerals strategy.