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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…
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…
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…
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…
Anomic Mining describes the moment when illegal mining stops being only an activity outside the law and begins to reveal a deeper institutional condition, a…
The World Bank’s new industrial policy report signals more than a technical adjustment in development thinking. It reflects a broader return of production, strategic sectors,…
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