A $2.5 billion bailout for Rio Tinto’s Tomago aluminium smelter has dominated the headlines — but the real story may be what it reveals about future demand for aluminium’s raw material. The same forces driving copper (renewables, EVs, data centres and grid buildouts) are also lifting aluminium use, and that points straight to bauxite.
History doesn’t repeat exactly, but resource bidding wars have played out three times in the last 125 years, and the pattern each time was strikingly similar.
According to the World Nuclear Association, at least 70 nuclear power reactors are currently under construction worldwide; can uranium production keep up?
The Americans are coming to town and they’ve found a gap in the market. Read on to find out why this could reshape the junior mining sector.
From 1976 to 1980, almost nobody grew real wealth. Here’s what that means for portfolios today.
Some regions don’t just host a mine. They host a mining century. Here’s why the Vicuña District belongs in that conversation.
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