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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.
Fortuna Mining’s acquisition gives it control of the Bambadji gold exploration project, adjacent to its Diamba Sud project in southeastern Senegal. Fortuna Mining has acquired the…
White Mesa Mill is a uranium, vanadium and rare-earth processing facility near Blanding, Utah. WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump has reduced the boundaries of Utah’s Bears…
Iron ore futures are holding above US$100 a dry metric tonne as traders weigh firm near-term Chinese demand against a new operational risk at one of…
Zinc processing infrastructure at a modern industrial facility. Zinc prices are trading near four-year highs as declining global inventories, production disruptions and persistent concentrate tightness collide…
A tailings storage facility failure at Samancor’s Dikwena Chrome mine near Brits has put a practical question at the centre of mining ESG compliance in 2026:…
Exploration equipment in a remote Saudi Arabian mineral frontier. Saudi Aramco and the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, known as Maaden, have signed an agreement to establish…
Indonesia’s nickel industry is entering 2026 with tighter mining controls but enough installed processing capacity to keep the global market supplied. That tension defines the nickel…
The critical minerals supply chain 2026 strategy in the United States is moving beyond mine incentives. Washington is combining Defense Production Act authority, export controls, defense…
Hard-rock spodumene mining and processing infrastructure in Brazil. The lithium price forecast 2026 is increasingly defined by stabilization rather than another price spike. After the sharp…
Silver has lost nearly half its value from January’s record, but the market’s structural deficit has not disappeared. At about US$63.81 an ounce, silver is down…
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