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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.
Regarding China's decreasing steel output and its current coronavirus epidemic, Anglo-Australian miner BHP warned that the exceptional iron ore prices of the past might be on…
Sustainable water management, primarily freshwater, within the mining sector has become essential because of a potential worldwide water crisis that might be accompanied by climate change.…
India's deepest and most modern port, Gangavaram Port Limited (GPL), on September 8, 2021, achieved a number of milestones by setting records in various cargo commodities.…
With the Wira shaft mine extension allowing access to previously uneconomic regions and opening up possible new possibilities, we are delighted to anticipate a long and…
The Philippine Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said that metallic mineral output value was P68.63 billion from January to June, up from P55.13 billion a year…
Nornickel, the biggest palladium, and high-grade nickel producer globally is the only physically supported nickel-neutral exchange traded commodity (ETC) in its Global Palladium Fund (GPF). The…
Mining activity in various Rwandan mining regions and at their regularity, in terms of output, and employment, has resumed. The significant increase in mineral prices on…
As per an electronic certificate of real estate value, Mesabi Metallics Co. LLC paid $12 million for thousands of acres of land in Nashwauk in the…
Because the mining business is relatively traditional, it is risk conservative, which poses a financial barrier to investing in new technologies that do not have a…
BHP Group Ltd and the union at its Escondida copper mine in Chile announced in the first week of August that they had achieved a tentative…
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