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The company behind a $2 billion mining project for table salt and the mineral potash…
Ghana’s Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, during a visit to the…
When two Oglala Lakota scouts heard drilling was expected to begin on Pe’ Sla, the…
Australia’s Yindjibarndi Indigenous group said on Wednesday it had lodged an appeal with the federal…
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Revolutionary Infrastructure Development Transforms African Mining Logistics The AFC to invite bids to build key Zambian copper railway link represents a fundamental shift in how critical minerals reach global markets from the heart of Africa. This ambitious infrastructure project connects Zambia’s copper-rich…
The DLA has extended the deadline for offers several times, moving it from the original date of 29 August to 15 October. The US Department of Defense has called off a tender for cobalt procurement, underscoring the ongoing challenges Western…
Last week, China rolled out sweeping new export controls, expanding earlier measures that targeted Rare Earth Elements (REEs) to now include the technologies used in their extraction and refining – an apparent bid to kneecap nascent Western efforts to develop…
Beijing has shocked Washington with export restrictions on minerals used in most electronics China is dramatically tightening its control over the rare earth minerals crucial to making high-tech products, in what US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called “a global supply…
India’s behavior in regard to critical minerals can be best understood as strategic hedging. Beijing is signaling geoeconomic control over a chokepoint industry by deciding to resume the supply of rare-earth magnets to India on the condition of a written “no-diversion” pledge.…
Australia may have spotted a lucrative hole in the market for rare-earth metals, which are crucial for the defence industry and for manufacturing products necessary for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), such as semiconductors. Last week, China, which has…
Last week, China’s Ministry of Commerce published a document that went by the name of “announcement No. 62 of 2025”. But this wasn’t just any bureaucratic missive. It has rocked the fragile tariffs truce with the US. The announcement detailed sweeping…
Its dual dependence on America’s digital services and Beijing’s critical mineral processing industry leaves it highly vulnerable. Tech wars between west and east are nothing new. During the cold war, the US and its allies competed fiercely with the Soviet…