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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.
As electric vehicle (EV) sales surged past 17 million units globally in 2024, the spotlight on lithium mining companies and nickel producers has never been brighter.…
Kenya rare earth minerals at Mrima Hill may transform global critical-minerals supply chains and East Africa’s mining economy.
₹1,500-crore incentive to recover lithium, cobalt, and nickel from discarded electronics India e-waste recycling has entered a new phase as the government launches an ambitious ₹1,500-crore…
A $1.8 billion UAE US critical minerals partnership with Orion Resource Partners marks a strategic inflection point in global mineral geopolitics — shifting from oil dependence…
When a new gold mine is proposed in water-stressed West Africa, one of the first questions from regulators and communities is no longer “How much ore?”…
Saudi Australia mining cooperation deepens as Riyadh and Canberra partner on a $2.5 trillion resource base under Vision 2030 and new joint ventures.
Life on Cracked Earth Raquel Celina Rodríguez walks carefully across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats — ground zero of the Atacama lithium…
The Russia coal crisis has become the country’s most severe mining downturn in thirty years — a collapse driven by sanctions, logistics gridlock, and global price…
Digital Catapult invests £400,000 in Optimal Slope to scale optimal slope pit design software that cuts mine waste and Scope 1 emissions by up to 20%.
Fortescue job cuts confirmed as the company moves its EV and battery manufacturing to China, marking a major shift in its green mining strategy.
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