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Middle East’s Critical Minerals Push Builds a $2 Trillion Pipeline Across Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman are moving from hydrocarbon-led growth to a coordinated critical minerals strategy spanning copper, lithium, gold and phosphate. The region is…
Andrada’s $11m Uis Equity Raise Points to a Shift Toward Scalable Critical Minerals at Namibia’s Tin District
Andrada Mining has raised about US$11 million via a share placing tied to its Uis operation, signaling the company is funding growth rather than simply sustaining…
Canada Accelerates Critical Minerals Strategy with Project Financing Push to Secure Global Supply Chains
Canada is entering a new phase in its critical minerals strategy, shifting from high-level ambition to hands-on project financing aimed at accelerating production, strengthening supply chains,…
Norway’s Fen Rare Earth Find Puts Europe’s Critical Minerals Strategy to the Test
Norway’s Fen Carbonatite Complex has been re-estimated at 15.9 million tonnes of rare earth oxides, with about 19% neodymium and praseodymium—key inputs for magnets used in…
Salta’s Lithium Push Turns Argentina’s Northern Province Into a Europe–Mercosur Supply-Chain Bridge
As the EU–Mercosur trade framework moves toward provisional implementation in May 2026, Argentina’s Salta is positioning itself as a strategic link between South America’s mineral supply…
Critical minerals prices are being reshaped by geopolitics, not just production costs
Signals from U.S. trade leadership point to a willingness in Western economies to pay structurally higher prices for critical minerals sourced outside China. The shift is…
Core Lithium wins A$290m funding to restart Finniss, betting on disciplined economics after 2024 price shock
Core Lithium has secured a A$290 million funding package to restart its Finniss lithium project in Australia’s Northern Territory, using conservative pricing assumptions to manage volatility.…
Non-China Critical Minerals to Trade at a Premium as US Redraws Global Supply Chains
A structural transformation is taking hold in global critical minerals markets, where price formation is no longer dictated purely by cost efficiency but increasingly by geopolitical…
Asia Pacific Critical Minerals Mining: How Infrastructure Dominance Is Reshaping Global Supply Chains
The Asia Pacific region has become the central pillar of the global critical minerals mining system, not because of resource abundance alone, but due to its…
Lithium’s New Power Map: Mining Concentration, China’s Refining Bottleneck, and the Race to Secure Battery Supply
Lithium has shifted from a commodity to a strategic supply chain, with geopolitical leverage increasingly determined by who controls refining and battery manufacturing rather than just…