The Mining Insider

Mineral Stockpile Pact, Indigenous Copper Victory & Rare Earth Revolution: IEA's Historic Decision, Chile's Lithium Disaster, and Mining's Fusion Gambit (18/03/25)


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Host Logan Ore dissects March 18th's industry-redefining developments:

  1. IEA's Critical Minerals Reserve: How 23 nations are creating a metals equivalent of strategic petroleum reserves and what it means for supply chains.
  2. Resolution Copper's Indigenous Showdown: Arizona's landmark ruling prioritizing Apache sacred lands over one of America's largest copper projects.
  3. Australia's Rare Earth Processing Breakthrough: Inside Lynas's quantum dot technology that threatens to end China's processing monopoly.
  4. Chile's Atacama Lithium Disaster: The environmental and market impacts of SQM's massive brine spill and what it means for global lithium supply.
  5. Mining's Fusion Power Moonshot: Why the industry's biggest players are betting $3.4B on fusion energy to transform metal processing.

Keywords: IEA strategic minerals reserve, Resolution Copper Apache, Lynas quantum rare earth processing, Chile lithium brine spill, mining fusion power plant, critical minerals stockpile, indigenous mining rights.

Sources: International Energy Agency communiqué, Arizona Governor's Office, Lynas Rare Earths announcement, Chilean Environmental Protection Agency, Commonwealth Fusion Systems press release.

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