Gold • Mar 25, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: The $3.9B Gold
The gold market is cannibalizing itself. There is no polite way to frame the current M&A frenzy. For years, the industry ignored declining reserve grades and…
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Copper • Mar 24, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: The $12.5B
The map of the world’s mineral dependencies is being redrawn, and for the first time in three decades, the West is actually picking up the pen.
Gold • Mar 24, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: Gold’s Rebound
The consensus was that gold had finally lost its luster. As bullion touched a 2026 low of $4,100, the narrative across trading desks was clear: the…
Copper • Mar 24, 2026
Copper Price Forecast 2026 Matters: Why the (1)
2026 isn't just another year on a commodity chart. It is the year the global copper market hits a wall that no amount of financial engineering…
Investment & Project Finance • Mar 23, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: The Sunday Briefing
The era of cheap, easy-to-access minerals ended while the market was looking at spreadsheets. Today, Sunday, March 22, 2026, we aren't just looking at price fluctuations:…
Battery Metals • Mar 23, 2026
Lithium price forecast 2026:
Lithium is the current punching bag of the mining industry. The narrative is predictable. Oversupply from 2024-2025 created a glut that crushed spot prices, sent junior…
Copper • Mar 23, 2026
Copper Price Forecast 2026: 5 Reasons the
The narrative that copper is just another cyclical commodity is officially dead. If you’re waiting for a massive correction to bring prices back to 2019 levels,…
Copper • Mar 22, 2026
Sunday Power List: The 10 Titans Defining t (1)
The Silicon Valley dream of a weightless, purely digital economy died a quiet death this week. It was buried under several million tons of copper concentrate…
Copper • Mar 21, 2026
Power List: Movers of the March 20 Mining Week
Everyone thinks the mining cycle is a slow, grinding machine that moves at the pace of a retreating glacier. They’re wrong. In 2026, the industry is…
Copper • Mar 20, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: The Gold Floor
The narrative that gold has peaked is officially dead. If you’ve been watching the charts this week, you’ve seen the institutional liquidation. On the surface, it…
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