Author Archives: Donato Peña
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Risk Analysis of Australia’s Rare Earth Supply Chain Strategy and its Implications for National Security
Australia’s renewed focus on rare earth elements (REEs) has prompted deep scrutiny of vulnerabilities in [...]
Peru: Mining investment exceeded US$1.443 billion between Jan and Apr 2025
On June 20, 2025, the Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) reported that mining [...]
Peru to showcase mining projects portfolio worth US$64.071 billion at IMARC
On June 17, 2025, Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines announced its participation in the [...]
Stakeholders and CSR in Mining: Systematic Review (2018–2025)
Published in April 2025, a systematic literature review by scholars from Hang Tuah University examined [...]
From Tweets to Insights: Social Opinion Mining on CSR
In May 2025, scholars from Sapienza University and the University of Naples introduced a novel [...]
What Procedures Matter to Social Acceptance of Mining? A Conjoint Experiment in Peru
In a June 2024 study published in World Development, Okada conducted a conjoint experiment in [...]
Mining as Sustainable Development: Social License vs. State License
A May 2024 study by Vargas Salas et al. (Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental) [...]
South Africa Field Research: Engagement in Mine Closure Context
A May 2025 study of South Africa’s Barberton gold district found that while stakeholder forums [...]
Australia Case Study: ‘Social License’ Discourse in Mining Reports
A recent study analyzing 18 sustainability reports from top Australian mining firms—like BHP, Rio Tinto, [...]