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Charles Pitts is the publisher of Skillings Mining Review, the trade journal that has covered mining since 1912. He writes on the macro forces behind metal prices: commodity cycles, sovereign capital and the shifting sources of demand. His current work argues that hyperscale AI, and the gigawatt-scale power its data centres need, is becoming a buyer of lithium and copper in its own right, competing with the automotive supply chain for tier-one reserves.
Helicopter-supported diamond drilling on a steep Golden Triangle mountainside. Goliath Resources has reported multiple drill holes containing visible gold at the Golden Gate Zone of its…
Open-pit mining operations in a rugged Newfoundland setting. New Found Gold Corp. has reached commercial production at its Hammerdown gold mine in central Newfoundland, marking the…
Exploration drilling in a tropical Brazilian gold district. G Mining Ventures has identified a new near-surface gold discovery at its Gurupi project in Brazil, adding exploration…
Remote copper-gold exploration terrain in central Alaska. Vizsla Copper Corp. is acquiring 100% of Agnico Eagle’s Delta polymetallic project and Helm Bay gold project in Alaska…
Diamond drill core from a high-grade silver-gold exploration setting. Outcrop Silver & Gold has more than doubled inferred silver resources and increased indicated silver by nearly…
Mid-size haul truck operating on a Virginia-style aggregates quarry road. Caterpillar is expanding autonomous haulage beyond large open-pit mines and onto the Cat 775, a key…
Underground drilling equipment operating at an active hard-rock gold mine. Gold is trading near $4,290 an ounce, well below its early-year peak but still at a…
Zambian copper processing infrastructure under bright African light. Jubilee Metals Group’s copper production in Zambia more than tripled in the year through June, as output from…
Brazilian rare earth and lithium processing facility surrounded by tropical vegetation and red laterite soil. Brazil has enacted a critical minerals law that gives the federal…
European critical raw materials processing and logistics facility. The European Union plans to create a corporation to aggregate demand, purchase and stockpile critical raw materials used…
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