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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.
BOISE, Idaho : Perpetua Resources has advanced its flagship Stibnite Gold Project with a wave of high-grade drilling discoveries, pairing its primary gold development with crucial…
Lithium brine evaporation ponds in an arid South American basin. Lithium prices rebound as supply buffers tighten Lithium prices are rebounding in August as three forces…
By Charles Pitts Published: August 7, 2026 NEW YORK/LONDON : Copper futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX) shattered historical benchmarks on Friday, surging past…
The global architecture governing critical minerals has entered a decisive operational phase. As industrial demand accelerates across electric vehicles (EVs), grid-scale energy storage systems (ESS), artificial…
Refined silver bars and silver doré at a precious-metals refinery. Silver’s retreat to approximately US$68 an ounce after stronger-than-expected US inflation data showed how quickly macroeconomic…
Gold’s climb toward US$4,600 an ounce met a near-term obstacle this week when stronger-than-expected US inflation data lifted the dollar and pushed bond yields higher. BullionVault…
Cabless electric haulage is moving autonomy from a fleet-control project toward a broader redesign of the open-pit mine. Autonomous mining technology has reached a scale that…
TORONTO : Somerset Minerals has intersected significant high-grade copper-silver mineralization at its flagship Coppermine project in Nunavut, Canada, confirming a major new blind discovery beneath shallow…
Capstone Copper’s San Pietro acquisition adds copper, gold, iron and cobalt exploration ground to its Atacama portfolio. Capstone Copper has agreed to acquire the copper-focused assets…
Brownfield mine infrastructure in Newfoundland’s boreal coastal landscape. FireFly Metals has secured commitments for up to A$190 million to accelerate development, technical studies and drilling at…
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