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US adds copper, silver, uranium to 2025 critical minerals list
The US government has expanded its 2025 list of critical minerals, officially adding copper and silver and long-standing strategic elements such as uranium — a

The Great Refill: utilities are back in the uranium market
How important are utilities in the uranium market? Utilities contracts are the greatest source of demand for uranium. Most uranium is bought through 3–15 year

Gallium’s 2025 Breakout: The Small Metal Behind Big Power Plays (Guest Post by Louis O Connor)
Louis O Connor , founder of Strategic Metals Invest. The world’s first marketplace for private investors to physically own rare earths. Our private clients also

The accidental miner (Guest Post by Kerry Knoll)
Kerry Knoll is chairman and co-founder of Generation Mining (TSX:GENM OTCQB: GENMF) As Generation Mining gets ready to build its large copper and palladium mine

The mine that never stops producing: how tokenization can turn commodities into perpetual assets (Guest Post by Henry McPhie, Streamex CEO)
Henry McPhie is the CEO and Co-Founder of Streamex, leading the mission to bring commodities on-chain through tokenization. He is a mining engineer and serial

International Copper Study Group warns of 150,000t deficit in 2026
The latest forecast from the International Copper Study Group expects global mine production growth of just 1.4 % in 2025 — a sharp downshift from

















