What’s in This Issue
The July 2026 issue of Skillings Mining Review examines the structural forces reshaping the global mining industry—from iron ore market realignment and critical minerals to resource nationalism, investment trends, and operational innovation.
This edition’s cover story, The New Iron Geography, explores how Simandou’s emergence is transforming global iron ore trade, challenging Australia’s dominance, and forcing producers to rethink grade economics, logistics, and long-term market strategy.
The issue also investigates why lithium producers are looking beyond the electric vehicle market, as the battery metals sector searches for new sources of demand amid evolving energy transition dynamics. Readers will also find an in-depth analysis of China’s changing influence over the iron ore market, highlighting how shifting trade relationships and supply diversification are redefining pricing power.
Beyond commodities, this issue explores the growing pressure on the world’s largest gold companies. Gold Giant Under Pressure examines how investor expectations, activist campaigns, operational performance, and industry consolidation are reshaping leadership across the gold sector. In The Mine Is Not the Prize, we look beyond ore bodies to examine how control over processing, refining, logistics, and downstream infrastructure increasingly determines competitive advantage.
Operational excellence remains a central theme. Before the Wall Breaks highlights the technologies and monitoring systems helping mining companies predict geotechnical failures before they become costly or catastrophic incidents.
The July issue also delivers comprehensive coverage of global mining developments, including new discoveries, project financing, critical minerals policy, underground expansion projects, M&A activity, permitting milestones, AI applications in exploration, resource updates, executive leadership changes, and the evolving geopolitical landscape influencing mineral supply chains.
Whether you are a mining executive, investor, engineer, geologist, policymaker, or supplier, this edition provides the strategic insight needed to understand where the industry is heading—and why today’s decisions will shape tomorrow’s resource economy.
