Weekly Geopolitical Mining Review

This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly connects Indonesia’s new state led rare earths strategy, Codelco’s governance response at El Teniente, the Concordia tragedy in Mexico, Verisk Maplecroft’s view of…

This week, Project Vault, the UK-US critical minerals MoU, Japan’s Minamitorishima test, Codelco-Quiborax’s Minera Ascotán, the Orion CMC-Glencore MoU and Washington’s 2026 Critical Minerals Ministerial all point in…

This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at five signals, Indigenous shared decision making in British Columbia, a deadly coltan mine collapse in DRC, India’s push into lithium and…

This week’s Geopolitical Mining Weekly looks at how Davos 2026, new U.S. rules for deep sea mining, Bolivia’s legal reset, Mali’s centralisation of its gold sector and Canada’s…

Geopolitical Mining Weekly examines how five moves, the U.S. Section 232 action on processed critical minerals, the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, the EU – Mercosur agreement, Tesla’s…

This week’s five signals show a shared shift, critical minerals risk is no longer driven mainly by geology or spot prices, but by who controls the financial and…