Battery Metals • Mar 15, 2026
Weekly Power List: The 10 Movers and Shaker (1)
The mining industry loves to talk about "long-term cycles," but the reality on the ground this week suggests we are moving at a much faster, more…
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Africa • Mar 14, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence: The Zambia
Geology is indifferent to your net-zero timelines. This is the uncomfortable truth facing the global midstream as we cross into mid-March 2026. While Western policy circles…
Battery Metals • Mar 14, 2026
Lithium price forecast 2026: Why the supply
The consensus narrative of the last 24 months was simple: lithium is in a death spiral. High-cost projects were mothballed, inventories swelled, and the "white gold"…
Copper • Mar 12, 2026
AI-Energy Nexus: Why Big Tech’s Power Hunger
Silicon Valley doesn't want to talk about dirt. They want to talk about Large Language Models, generative art, and the "democratization of intelligence." But the shiny…
Copper • Mar 12, 2026
Weekly Power List: The 10 Movers and Shaker (2)
The 2026 mining cycle isn't a recovery. It's a structural scramble. Most analysts spent the last two years waiting for prices to "normalize." They missed the…
Copper • Mar 12, 2026
Skillings Mining Intelligence Newsletter
March 12, 2026 marks an inflection point for the global extractive sector. We aren't just looking at price fluctuations anymore; we are witnessing a fundamental reordering…
Copper • Mar 12, 2026
Copper deficit 2026
The invisible hand of the market is currently being choked by a copper wire. Most analysts spent the last three years talking about the "energy transition"…
Copper • Mar 11, 2026
Khaleesi Discovery: Is C3 Metals Sitting on
Here’s the thing nobody wants to admit: the era of easy copper is dead. We are currently scouring the planet for "tier-one" assets that simply don’t…
Rare Earths • Mar 11, 2026
USA Rare Earth Consolidates Control of Roun (1)
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas : USA Rare Earth has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Texas Mineral Resources Corp. (TMRC) for approximately…
Processing & Smelting • Mar 10, 2026
Rare Earth Processing:
Rare earth processing is the most misunderstood bottleneck in the global energy transition. Here’s the thing nobody wants to admit: Digging these elements out of the…
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