Country & Region Analysis
Country-level insights on mining, legitimacy, institutions and geopolitical positioning.
Clarity. Strategy. Global context.
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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Chile with Kast: signals for copper, lithium, rare earths and Codelco
Chile with Kast enters a new phase: a record mining pipeline, a faster but untested permitting system and renewed geopolitical pressure around copper, lithium and rare earths. This…
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For China, Minerals Were, Are and Will Always Be Strategic
For China, minerals have always been strategic, today they sit at the core of its vision of technological power and national security. This piece explains how Beijing built…
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RESourceEU: Is Europe finally moving beyond form on critical minerals?
With RESourceEU, Brussels is trying to turn the Critical Raw Materials Act into operational reality: finance, joint purchasing, stockpiling, a new Raw Materials Centre. Our analysis looks at…
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America’s 2025 National Security Strategy: When Economic Power and Critical Minerals Move to the Center
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy hard wires economic power, supply chains and critical minerals into U.S. security doctrine. This article looks at how that shift changes the map…