Salini Krishnan

Salini Krishnan reports on the policy and capital forces reshaping critical-mineral supply chains: rare earths, US–China export controls, government stockpiles, deep-sea mining and the public money behind the West's push to rebuild refining capacity. A science postgraduate with a degree in communication, she reads the technical record before the press release, following minerals from exploration licence to processing plant. She has written for Skillings Mining Review since 2019.