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UNCTAD: Governments Turn to Trade Policy to Secure Critical Mineral Supplies

UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (IPS) - Demand for critical energy transition minerals (CETMs) is expected to surge over the coming decades as countries expand clean technology capacity, d...

Critical minerals are reshaping global trade as demand surges – Unctad

As the global economy shifts towards cleaner energy systems, electrification and digital technologies, more countries are competing for access to critical minerals. Clean technolog...

The World’s Mineral Powers Seize Their Moment

Resource-rich countries haven’t always benefited from extraction. Can this time be different?

Mineral boom powers EAC trade to $46.3 billion

Rising exports of minerals, particularly copper and precious metals, helped drive the East African Community’s (EAC) international merchandise trade to $46.3 billion in the first q...

Charted: The Explosive Growth of Critical Minerals

Explore how global mine production has evolved from 1960 to 2024, highlighting booming demand for critical minerals and industrial metals.

Charted: China’s Grip on Critical Mineral Refining

China leads refining for 19 of 20 critical minerals analyzed, averaging about 70% market share across key supply chains.

Transforming Africa to capitalise on critical minerals requires dramatic strategy shift

The world is entering a new industrial era, built for critical minerals, and this presents an opportunity for Africa to transform its economies, if that transformation is undertake...

Mineral Markets Cut Smuggling, Lift Revenue

[Daily News] Dodoma -- THE establishment of mineral markets and purchasing centres has improved transparency in Tanzania's mineral trade and reduced smuggling, the Mineral Commissi...

Scholars focus on rare minerals for dira 2050

As the global race for critical minerals intensifies, Tanzanian researchers are preparing to tackle one of the country's biggest development questions: how can the nation's vast mi...

India’s Critical Mineral Challenge in a New Global Resource Order

Mineral security is not just about access to resources but about control over value chains. India’s response must be strategic, not reactive.

Expanding the Copperbelt’s Atlantic Export Routes

(click to enlarge) U.S. strategy toward African critical minerals is changing rapidly. The United States’ Millennium Challenge Corporation has agreed to expand the use of a $491 mi...

First Phosphate critical minerals strategy strengthened by international support, Noble Capital Markets says

Forward-looking critical minerals strategy must drive African beneficiation

South Africa’s Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy must become a practical roadmap for beneficiation, industrialisation and regional development, State-owned mineral research org...

Sharp rise in April mineral sales highlights importance of mining, council avers

Barring the effects of the Middle East conflict and high fuel costs, South Africa’s total mineral sales could reach R995.5-billion for this year, if the trend in mineral sales cont...

South Korea Has Diversified Some Critical Minerals. The Hardest Dependencies Remain.

For six minerals critical to South Korea’s most strategically important industries, China’s 2025 share of Korean imports ranges from 14.8 percent to 94.2 percent 

From Rocks to Riches - How 2026/27 Budget Advances Mineral Processing Ambitions

[Daily News] Dar es Salaam -- FOR decades, Tanzania has been known as one of Africa's top mineral-rich countries. Its exports and government revenues have benefited greatly from re...

The new great game on minerals

Beijing’s export controls on rare earths and other niche metals are distorting markets and fuelling resource nationalism

China & the New Era of Critical Minerals Diplomacy

Beijing's export controls on rare earths and other niche metals are distorting markets and fuelling resource nationalism

Future Minerals Forum report outlines practical framework for building shared value in global mining

Government-led industry organisation the Future Minerals Forum and US-based Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy have released a new report titled ‘Building Shared V...

How the race for East Africa’s critical minerals is upending regional conservation efforts

East Africa’s mineral wealth is fuelling a trade boom, but rising mining activity is also driving deforestation and environmental risk across the region.

As India rises in critical minerals race, can it dent China’s dominance?

A new India-US pact on critical minerals has put the spotlight on New Delhi’s potential as an alternative to China, but analysts say despite the country’s significant resources, it...

Ministers lock horns over critical minerals funding

Resources Minister wants a critical minerals deal with the US before the election, but Cabinet isn’t keen to underwrite export prices

How gold exports drive Tanzania’s trade surplus with neighbours

Tanzania’s trade surplus with neighbouring countries has remained broadly supported by mineral exports, particularly gold, even as overall performance shows regional fluctuations,...

Lack of industry-scale knowledge of extracting, processing critical minerals is biggest stumbling block, says Geological...

Calls for separate strategy for mining critical minerals