🎲 The EU has identified 47 strategic mining, processing and recycling projects to reduce import dependency on critical minerals such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, whose demand is rising sharply due to AI infrastructure, electric cars and defence systems. Six of the mines are in Spain and Portugal, where environmental groups are protesting the acceleration…
Month: June 2026
Did you see this sh*t Q2 2026?
Blood, Mud, and Pixels At least four deadly landslides have devastated the M23-controlled Rubaya mines in early 2026, burying hundreds of casual miners. While the DRC government and Rwandan-backed rebels trade propaganda and fake satellite data to secure narrative dominance, global tech supply chains continue to quietly absorb coltan extracted from an institutional vacuum. Read…