EU Critical Minerals Strategy Faces Scrutiny Over Community Consent
The European Union’s drive to secure critical mineral supply chains is increasingly confronting issues of land access, water use, community participation and benefit sharing in...
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EU Critical Minerals Strategy Confronts Consent and Local Legitimacy Risks
Europe’s critical minerals expansion is moving beyond policy design into the operational realities of mining development, where land use, water access, community consent and value...
Industry Coalition Challenges Credit Use in EU Carbon Border Scheme
A group of European industrial and climate organisations has warned the European Commission that allowing carbon credits to reduce obligations under the Carbon Border Adjustment...
Indonesia Nickel Sector Faces Rising ESG and Coal Power Cost Pressure
Indonesia has transitioned from raw nickel ore exports to a domestic processing and industrialisation model driven by export restrictions on unprocessed ore and the development...
Europe’s Critical Minerals Gap Centers on Processing Capacity Expansion
Europe’s critical-minerals supply system is structured around a widening gap between raw-material extraction and the industrial processing required to produce battery materials, semiconductors, defence components,...
G7 Critical Minerals Alliance Reshapes Financing for Mining Supply Chains
The G7 Critical Minerals Resilience and Production Alliance, announced in Évian-les-Bains on 17 June 2026, is reshaping how mining, processing and recycling projects are financed...
Western Balkans Emerges as Europe’s Near-Shore Critical Minerals Corridor
The Western Balkans is increasingly positioned within Europe’s critical-minerals supply chain as a near-shore corridor linking EU industrial demand with regional deposits of copper, zinc,...
EU CRMA Strategic Designation Reshapes Valuation of European Critical-Minerals Projects
Europe’s mining and processing sector is beginning to assign increasing valuation weight to Strategic Project designation under the EU Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), which...
Europe’s Critical-Minerals Expansion Faces Rising Water Risk in Project Financing
Europe’s critical-minerals development pipeline is increasingly constrained by water availability, with mining and processing projects across lithium, copper, tungsten, manganese, graphite, gallium, bauxite and rare...
France’s EMILI Lithium Project Advances Toward Integrated Sovereign Supply Chain
France’s EMILI lithium project in Beauvoir, Allier, is being developed as an integrated mining and chemical conversion operation designed to supply battery-grade lithium hydroxide into...