Country & Region Analysis
Country-level insights on mining, legitimacy, institutions and geopolitical positioning.
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Focused briefs on how mining policy, institutions and public legitimacy shape the strategic trajectory of key jurisdictions across America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe.
Latest country & region briefs
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China’s Defense Mobilization Law and Mineral Security
China’s revised defense mobilization law extends a decades long approach to national security in which resources, production capacity, infrastructure and supply are built before pressure makes them indispensable.…
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The System Around the Resource: What the Agreement Between Venezuela and the United States Really Means
The Venezuela United States agreement begins with the physical fit between Venezuelan heavy crude and Gulf Coast refining, but its architecture now extends into minerals, technology, processing, traceability…
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Canada: How Indigenous Nations Are Rewriting the Terms of Mining
Across Canada, Indigenous Nations are entering more of the institutions that shape mining, from mineral claims and project assessment to ownership, finance and capital allocation.
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United Kingdom: Building Mineral Capacity Through Coordination
The United Kingdom is building mineral relevance from a different asset base: future industrial demand, selective domestic capability, market infrastructure, finance and international partnerships. This article examines how…
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United States: How the Department of War Is Building a Mineral System
The U.S. Department of War is beginning to treat mineral security not as a purchasing problem, but as a system capability. From military land and supply chain mapping…
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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…
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