2026
Resilience-Based Design in Tailings Engineering
Tailings dams are shifting from asking "how do we build a dam that meets the risk criteria?" to asking "how do we build a system that performs after a disruption occurs?"
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2026
13 published stories in this archive.
2026
The Missing Slide: Why Nobody Is Talking About Who Will Actually Do This Work
Presenting on her last day at SSR Mining, Aksu delivers the session's sharpest challenge: two days of talk about capital, reserves, and supply chains — and almost no discussion of the people…
2026
It’s Not About Finding the Mine — It’s About Earning the Right to Build It
Özdemir argues that Turkey's costliest mining lessons weren't geological — they were social and environmental. Drawing on MITTO's work on more than 1,000 projects, he explains why environmental and social groundwork, not…
2026
Four Decades On: How Turkish Mining Engineering Built Itself From Scratch
From Ottoman-era copper smelting to a home-grown engineering sector now exporting expertise to Central Asia, Karahan traces the improbable rise of Turkish mining engineering — built not by importing solutions wholesale, but…
2026
Opportunities for Turkish mining businesses in Central Asia
Opportunities for Turkish mining businesses in Central Asia (Simon Glancy — Managing Partner, Strategic Solutions)
2026
ADB’s Critical Minerals-to-Manufacturing (CMM) Value Chains Initiative
Alidenes brings a mining-industry background (most recently at the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold joint venture in Mongolia, between Rio Tinto and the Mongolian government) to her role building ADB's critical-minerals-to-manufacturing portfolio.
2026
Protecting Foreign Mining Investments from Political Risks in a Changing Geopolitical World
McFersonen, an international disputes lawyer, opens by joking he has no checkbook to offer — only advice on how capital, once deployed, can be protected. His core argument: mining sits at the…
2026
Critical Minerals in Central Asia and the South Caucasus Regions—Challenges and Opportunities
The EU's list (34 minerals), Canada's, and Russia's domestically focused framework, versus the US/Canada "hybrid" approach balancing domestic production and diversified sourcing.
2026
U.S. policy on critical minerals
Yaknes presents a "1,000-foot view" of U.S. critical minerals policy, framing China's dominant, non-market-driven control of key mineral markets as the central problem.
2026
Unlocking the Tethyan Belt: The Strategic Vision for the Middle Corridor’s Mineral Wealth
Unlocking the Tethyan Belt: The Strategic Vision for the Middle Corridor’s Mineral Wealth