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The United States has taken its first physical delivery of copper into Project Vault. The $12 billion strategic minerals reserve launched at the White House in…
The United States and Myanmar’s military-backed government met in Tokyo last week for the second time in a month, according to three people with knowledge of…
The US government has spent the past eighteen months deploying capital into critical minerals at a pace and in a form that has no real precedent…
When Reuters reported this week that the United States and Myanmar’s military-backed government held a second round of undisclosed talks in Tokyo, heavy rare earths were…
The race for critical minerals is accelerating. So, according to governance experts, is the risk of repeating the mistakes that defined an earlier generation of resource…
A Santiago-based consultancy has drawn a distinction that most critical-mineral forecasts miss. Scarcity and fragility are not the same problem. They do not always affect the…
Federal policy and new technologies could unlock valuable minerals from mining waste. However, poor site data, environmental risks and high processing costs remain major obstacles. The…
Malaysia’s established processing operations and emerging separation and magnet projects are attracting US interest. The challenge now is to turn exploratory discussions into commercially viable projects.
JPMorganChase has launched a decade-long initiative to finance strategic industries, including critical-mineral mining and processing. Its investment in Perpetua Resources offers a concrete example of its…
The United States is advancing its own licensing route for deep-sea minerals, while the International Seabed Authority maintains that mining in international waters must follow its…
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