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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.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is putting another A$8.7 million behind copper exploration in Canada, taking a proposed 13.5% stake in White Cliff Minerals and adding a…
Honey Badger Silver’s updated preliminary economic assessment raises Prairie Creek’s after-tax net present value to about C$1.2 billion, supported by higher silver, zinc and lead prices,…
Gold and silver rebounded on Sept. 18 as investors looked beyond the Federal Reserve’s latest rate hike and reassessed the outlook for Treasury yields, oil-driven inflation…
An industrial tailings recovery operation requires integrated controls for water, energy, permitting, closure and disclosure. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement…
Conceptual editorial image of an open-pit gold project in Chile’s Atacama region. Tesoro Gold’s maiden 1.28 million-ounce Ore Reserve at the Ternera deposit gives the El…
Gold held above $4,300 an ounce after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points and signaled that further tightening may be…
Brazilian ferronickel processing infrastructure at an industrial nickel operation. China-backed MMG has offered long-term ferronickel supply guarantees to European customers in an effort to secure regulatory…
Artisanal gold-mining activity in Nigeria’s Niger State, where a security crackdown has raised questions about detention conditions, accountability and community risk. At least 33 people suspected…
China Rare Earth Group is in talks to acquire Shenghe Resources, potentially placing Shenghe’s stake in MP Materials under Chinese state control. China Rare Earth Group,…
The Crawford project is designing autonomy, electrification and fleet management into its mine plan from the outset. Canada Nickel’s planned Crawford nickel project in Ontario is…
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