Eurasian mining, markets, policy and technology intelligenceCategory
16 published stories in this archive.
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Turkey's Beylikova deposit is estimated at 694 million tons of resource, potentially the world's second-largest rare earth site after China's Bayan Obo — yet without international standard certification, it remains outside formal…
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A seemingly negligible 0.5% deviation in recovery efficiency at a large-scale mining operation can translate into hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars in lost revenue over a project's lifetime.
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Turkey's mining law changed only once between 1954 and 1985, and once more between 1985 and 2004 — but since 2004, it has undergone 31 amendments in just 24 years, undermining the…
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Turkey's economy has reached roughly $1.6 trillion in size, ranks 10th globally by purchasing power parity, and attracted over $13 billion in foreign direct investment last year — with mining representing a…
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Under the IEA's sustainable development scenario, demand for critical minerals is projected to grow fourfold by 2040 — and sixfold under a net-zero scenario — driven above all by battery materials like…
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Turkey's mineral potential is estimated at roughly $3.5 trillion — a resource base the company argues must increasingly be viewed not merely as an economic commodity, but as a pillar of economic…
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The session frames geometallurgy as the discipline that turns geological and mineralogical data into economically actionable models — closing the gap between what's in the ground and what a processing plant can…
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Lubricant expenditure represents only about 5% of a mine's maintenance costs — yet a single upgrade, such as switching transmission fluid from mineral to synthetic, can cut fuel consumption by up to…
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TMK is offering a unique, first-in-Central-Asia hub for critical and rare materials — not just mining, but building the full value chain from upstream through midstream, with an open call for downstream…
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Trust is now a strategic asset — companies rated highly on trust by ESG agencies trade at a 12–18% valuation premium versus sector peers, while low community trust can add roughly 70%…