Mary Lovely, Senior Fellow at PIIE, says China’s dominance in rare earth production gives Beijing significant leverage in trade issues with the US. She speaks with Stephen Engle on the sidelines of the Bund Summit in Shanghai. (Source: Bloomberg)
The short-lived White House press secretary was listed as an adviser to a Kristi Noem–linked company that aims to use AI for mining. Both the company and she say she never worked there.
An Indigenous community in Peru is proposing to buy part of a copper concession from MMG Ltd. and turn thousands of artisanal miners operating there into formal suppliers to the Chinese-owned company.
Malaysia’s King Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar bought a stake in local miner Southern Alliance Mining Ltd for S$6.1 million ($4.8 million), the company said in a statement.
Bolivia quiere aprovechar la fiebre global por los minerales críticos, pero Paz enfrenta un obstáculo formidable: unos 500.000 mineros que pueden complicar sus planes para transformar el sector. (Source: Bloomberg)
Nordic Compass, a competitiveness-focused business alliance, is considering branching out into critical raw materials to build up the region’s capacity to process minerals needed by European industry.