Category Archives: Mining & Critical Minerals

Bilateral Mining Diplomacy and Investment Signaling

Institutional Dialogue as a Competitiveness Instrument

Zambia — Copper Leverage Under Fiscal Constraint

Kenya — Emerging Minerals, Infrastructure Expectations, and Early Legitimacy Tests

South Africa — Mining, Energy, and Institutional Fatigue

DRC Cobalt Governance — Controlling Value Beyond Extraction

Peru — Pataz: Security, Enforcement, and the Limits of Control

Peru’s REINFO Extensions — When Temporary Becomes Structural

Africa’s Critical Minerals Expansion — Scale, Leverage, and the Governance Gap

Canada’s Critical Minerals Strategy — Credibility, Capacity, and the Long Game