Rare Earths
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 29–July 5, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at how mineral security moves from strategy into usable supply through coal based feedstocks, Red Chris infrastructure, India-Japan geological cooperation, Sangdong tungsten, Adani Copper and Cerro Colorado.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 22–28, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers U.S. Army critical minerals leases, EU-Brazil raw materials diplomacy, Codelco and Anglo American’s copper agreement, Queensland’s fund expansion, India’s rare earth magnet tender and Greenland’s Kuannersuit decision.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 15–21, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly covers the G7 critical minerals alliance, Canada’s new project partnerships, U.S. rare earth financing, Red Chris, Cobre Panamá and BHP’s Jansen update.
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Brazil: How a Private Company Built a Global Niobium Industry
Brazil’s niobium story shows how mineral power can be built through private industrial execution. Through CBMM, Araxá and decades of processing, technology and market creation, Brazil turned geological endowment into a global niobium industry.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of June 8–14, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at how the G7, Ontario, Kazakhstan, Brazil, Japan and the United States are moving critical minerals policy into finance, processing, permitting, industrial capacity and trusted supply chains.
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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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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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China’s Mineral Security Playbook Moves Into Law
China’s new Mineral Resources Regulation turns mineral policy into an operating system. Beijing is linking geology, project control, strategic minerals, reserves, emergency capacity, foreign investment and supply chain defense into one framework for resource security and industrial resilience.
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Geopolitical Mining Weekly | Week of May 18–24, 2026
This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how mineral security is being shaped through processing capacity, rare earth execution, copper province governance, Arctic mining infrastructure, Codelco’s institutional credibility, Sherritt’s nickel cobalt sanctions exposure and Zimbabwe’s small scale gold mining restrictions.