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The 10th MINEX Europe Mining and Exploration Forum will take place on 28-30 October 2026 in Trim, Ireland – a short distance from Dublin Airport.
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MINEX Forum’s 2026 Asia Series Reflections: Reserves are NO LONGER the main question
What MINEX Asia in Ankara told us about the next chapter of the Middle Corridor — and why the conversation now belongs in London. In mid April in Astana, and again in Ankara in late June, I watched…
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Europe’s Mining Moment: We Have Heard the Diagnosis. Bring Us the Cure.
A personal invitation from the MINEX Forum Secretariat ahead of the 10th MINEX Europe Mining & Exploration Forum, Trim, Ireland, 28–30 October 2026.
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Europe’s Energy Metals Dilemma: Between Policy Ambition and Market Reality, Who Blinks First?
Europe faces an unprecedented raw materials crisis that policy targets systematically underestimate. By 2030, demand for energy metals are expected to explode. Lithium demand will increase five-fold. Cobalt will rise nine-fold. Nickel,…
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The €1.8 Billion Annual Requirement: Financing Europe’s Next Generation of Mines
Europe has written the rulebook for critical raw materials sovereignty. A new European Investment Bank study, produced with Dublin based Aurum Global Exploration, puts a number on what actually closing the gap…
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RAW MATTERS Podcast Celebrates 1,000 Followers and Prepares for Season 2
RAW MATTERS podcast celebrates reaching 1,000 LinkedIn followers and announces the start of Season 2 recordings on 15 September, promoting informed discussions on critical minerals.
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Europe’s Energy Metals Crisis: Between Policy Ambition and Market Reality
Europe faces an unprecedented raw materials crisis that policy targets systematically underestimate. By 2030, demand for energy metals is expected to explode. Lithium demand will increase five-fold. Cobalt will rise nine-fold. Nickel,…
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Supply Chains Don’t Build Themselves — What the Middle Corridor Still Needs to Move at Speed
MINEX Asia 2026 Day Two in Ankara concluded that the Middle Corridor has the geological endowment and improving governance — but lacks the midstream processing infrastructure to shift global supply chains, with…
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China Controls 90% of REE Processing. Ankara Is Where the Alternative Is Being Built — Hopefully.
MINEX Asia 2026 Day One in Ankara moved beyond the strategic case for Central Asia's critical minerals potential to the harder questions of financing speed, processing infrastructure, laboratory bankability and workforce —…
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The Transshipment Loophole: Is China using Morocco as a backdoor to Europe?
EU Trade Commissioner Šefčovič has warned that over $6 billion in Chinese industrial investment in Morocco risks turning the country into a transshipment hub that bypasses Western tariffs, exposing a fundamental weakness…