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Skillings’ “Mining by Regions” category provides a global lens on mining activity, covering updates from key geographies like Australia, Latin America, Africa, North America, and Asia. Stay informed on regional production trends, political and regulatory shifts, investment opportunities, and mineral-specific hotspots. Whether it’s Chilean copper, Canadian gold, or African cobalt, this section tracks how local dynamics influence global supply chains and market behavior. Perfect for investors, policy analysts, and mining executives looking for geographically segmented insights.
Indonesia’s laterite nickel mines sit at the center of the 2026 supply debate. Indonesia has cut its 2026 nickel ore quota to 260–270 million wet metric…
Hemlo Mining’s underground electrical substation outage shows how quickly a relatively small power-system failure can become a production problem. The Sept. 4 outage affected the Alimak…
Project Vault gives the US a $10B critical minerals reserve, but rare-earth refining and magnet capacity remain major supply-chain gaps.
Sudan’s artisanal gold sector is a major source of revenue for the forces fighting the country’s war. Switzerland has begun banning purchases, imports and transit of…
Furnaces and conveyors inside a ferronickel processing plant. The European Commission is preparing to issue a statement of objections to MMG’s proposed acquisition of Anglo American’s…
A group of critical mineral developers handpicked by the European Union is now warning Brussels that the money isn't showing up fast enough to keep their…
The United States says it will help Kenya build a domestic critical minerals processing industry, a pledge that lands right as Washington and Beijing jockey for…
Argentina's ambassador to India, Mariano Caucino, has again pitched Buenos Aires as a lithium supplier New Delhi can lean on without geopolitical strings attached — the…
Brazil's Senate has approved a new Brazil critical minerals law — the National Policy for Critical and Strategic Minerals — now awaiting President Luiz Inácio Lula…
The US International Development Finance Corporation expands rare earth financing in Madagascar, strengthening Africa’s critical minerals supply chain ahead of African Mining Week 2026.
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