Mining viability
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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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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.