Category: Mining

This is a free preview of the upcoming Critical Minerals Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Introduction This week, the critical minerals landscape was largely shaped ...

In a country where rolling blackouts last up to 17 hours a day, Zambia’s new $100 million Chisamba solar plant offers both hope and hard choices. The project, built by the Chinese state-run energy giant PowerChina and financed by Zambia’s national utility ZESCO, is designed ...

Bolivia’s presidential elections have thrown the future of its lithium sector into doubt — and the country’s relationship with China has gone along with it. The first round of voting in late August ended two decades of rule by leftist party Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), and now, ...

This is a free preview of the upcoming Critical Minerals Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Policy shifts this week widened Washington’s definition of “critical minerals,” as state-owned companies and trading houses stepped up ...

China has opened the door for Malaysia to host what would be its first overseas rare earths processing venture. This was revealed after President Xi Jinping signalled Beijing’s readiness to provide technical assistance, only if run through government-linked companies. The ...

The American Iron and Steel Institute, a U.S. industry lobbying group, called on the White House to intervene in a $500 million deal in Brazil that it says would increase China’s stake in global nickel supplies. This follows the announcement in ...

The United States wants to secure its supply of strategic minerals in conflict-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, hoping to challenge China's near-monopoly on the lucrative sector. While the strategy has been in the works for years, Washington has doubled down on ...

Despite widespread expectations that China’s engagement with Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries would slow, recent data tells a different story. According to a new report from the Griffith Asia Institute, Chinese involvement in the 150 BRI countries surged in the first half of 2025, reaching ...

By José Arturo Cárdenas and Gonzalo Torrico Bolivian right-wing presidential hopeful Jorge Quiroga on Monday vowed to scrap billion-dollar lithium extraction deals struck by the outgoing government with Russia and China if elected leader. "We ...

A much more subdued Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) wrapped up in Yokohama on Friday, which lacked many of the big check pledges of previous TICAD gatherings and instead focused on fostering trade ties between Japan and Africa. In his ...

Is Africa’s gold rush worth the life-and-death risks? Armed militants regularly storm mines in Ghana, Mali, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, wrecking equipment, kidnapping workers, and demanding ransoms. Embassies have even urged Chinese firms to pull out. Yet with gold ...

This is a free preview of the upcoming Critical Minerals Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. Global critical mineral markets this week reflected the mounting intersection of geopolitics, industrial policy, and resource nationalism. China ...