Africa • Sep 5, 2025
The World Wants Africa’s Minerals
Mining Indaba 2026 in Cape Town will decide how Africa’s critical minerals are shared. Buyers face new rules: invest locally or lose access.
Mo Shine
Mo Shine covers the geopolitics, logistics and diplomacy of critical-mineral extraction in the Global South, with a focus on how African statecraft shapes what investors and operators can actually build. He spent more than a decade in newspaper journalism, as sub-editor and executive editor, and has worked with Skillings since 2009. His current work tracks the Lobito Corridor and other Western-backed rail routes, and what they change for working capital, regional diplomacy and operator resilience across the Central African Copperbelt.
Processing & Smelting • Sep 4, 2025
Uranium’s “Second Nuclear Age”: Junior Miners
Junior uranium miners are driving the new nuclear age, transforming uranium into a strategic asset central to global energy security.
Coal • Sep 4, 2025
Coal Still King: ICMM’s Global Dataset
ICMM’s Global Mining Dataset shows coal still accounts for 42% of mines, exposing the gap between net-zero goals and mining reality.
Africa • Sep 3, 2025
Guelmim Gold Discovery Positions Morocco as
High-grade gold veins in Guelmim could transform Morocco’s mining sector, with grades up to 300 g/t and potential 3–5M oz resource.
Battery Metals • Sep 2, 2025
Lithium Price Crash Meets Surging Demand
Lithium prices plunge 85% despite record demand, reshaping the global battery metals industry and challenging miners.
Gold • Sep 1, 2025
Gold Mining Stocks Outpace Bullion as
Gold miners are outpacing bullion in 2025 as tariffs, Fed rate cuts, and central bank demand drive prices higher. What’s next for the sector?
Editor's Picks • Aug 30, 2025
Rock Falls Remain the #1 Killer in Underground
Underground mine rock falls are not yesterday’s problem. They are today’s quietest risk.
Mining Finance • Aug 29, 2025
Billions Buried in Waste: U.S. Mines Discard
DENVER, CO — U.S. mines are discarding billions of dollars’ worth of rare earths and other critical minerals every year, according to new research from the…
Iron Ore • Aug 28, 2025
₹3,100 Crore Question: Can Tata Steel Dodge
August 28, 2025 | Mumbai Tata Steel Ltd. has pumped ₹3,100 crore into its Singapore-based holding arm, T Steel Holdings (TSHP), as the company braces for…
Energy Transition • Aug 27, 2025
How Resource Nationalism Is Redrawing the Mining Map
From Panama to Namibia, governments are rewriting the rules of mining, challenging decades of liberalized investment. Resource nationalism—policies that extend state influence over taxes, ownership, exports,…
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