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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.
Brazilian nickel mining and ferronickel processing infrastructure. The proposed sale of Anglo American’s Brazilian nickel business to MMG has become more than a transaction review. It…
Brazilian nickel and critical-minerals processing infrastructure viewed from an elevated angle. Critical-minerals finance is increasingly being shaped by governments before projects reach lenders’ credit committees. The…
Copper is trading at $14,464 per tonne on the LME, close to its recent $14,875 peak. At the same time, the Yangshan copper premium has climbed…
Five transactions across lithium, gold, silver, copper and nickel show how mining M&A deals in 2026 are shifting from resource accumulation toward control of permitting-stage optionality.…
Ghana’s Ewoyaa project is designed as a conventional open-pit spodumene operation in the Central Region. Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt’s proposed US$210 million takeover of Atlantic Lithium has…
Illustrative view of a copper tailings recovery and wet-leach processing facility in Zambia’s Copperbelt. Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has signed a $498 million engineering, procurement and…
Silver bullion and granules beside industrial assay equipment. Silver is testing a technical line that could determine whether its recent rebound develops into a broader advance…
Atacama mining terrain illustrates the infrastructure and execution conditions relevant to the Ternera development option. Tesoro Gold has added a defined development option to Chile’s gold…
The latest gold mining news 2026 cycle has produced a useful case study in how a junior company can try to move from exploration to production…
Critical Metals Corp. is positioning a proposed refinery near Brașov, Romania, as a test of whether Europe can turn an unusual Greenland mineral into a non-Chinese…
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