June 18, 2026
The New Global Competition for Strategic Minerals
For most of my 24 years in this trade, the producer sat at the bottom of the table. The big buyers held the cards, set the prices, and we who dug the minerals out of the Jos Plateau took what we were offered and were told to be grateful for it. That arrangement felt permanent.…
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June 18, 2026
Critical Minerals and Global Geopolitics
Years ago, when I walked the tin and columbite fields of the Jos Plateau, the minerals coming out of that red soil were treated as simple commodities. You dug them, you bagged them, you sold them at whatever price a distant buyer felt like paying. Nobody in those days spoke about columbite or tantalite as…
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