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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.
FINANCE Polymet Air Permits Face Mixed Ruling Over Ore Recovery Claims On the one side, on Wednesday, the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned the ruling of a…
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FINANCE South Africa Mineworker COVID-19 Deaths Reach 215 — Toll Rises Amid Surge In South Africa, as a more infectious form of the virus sweeps through…
TECHNOLOGY Space Mining War Brews in 2024 — US Faces China-Russia Challenge Experts warn that a brewing war to build a mining base in space would…
MARKET INTELLIGENCE Tin Mine Ponds Need Daily Desilting — Here’s Why “Ensuring adequate water storage capacity in the process ponds of the mines is necessary for…
MARKET INTELLIGENCE Coal India to Diversify Into Non-Coal Mining — Plans Big 2021 Push Coal India Limited (CIL) is all punched up to step into non-coal…
EXPLORATION Mining Robotics Boom Accelerates Safety and Data Capture Mining has entered a robotics boom as developers are taking huge strides in AI, drone use, and…
Breaking: Mining Deal Tin Mining Digital Partners Drive Industry 4.0 Shift China's CMOC just committed $1.7 billion to Ecuador's largest gold-copper deposit — a deal that…
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