President Donald Trump’s assertion that U.S. companies will gain access to Venezuela’s vast oil reserves has seemingly sealed the wider belief that energy triggered the current row. But there’s more to it, an uncertain prize: the country’s largely uncharted mineral and metals wealth. Beyond crude, Venezuela is believed to hold deposits of minerals and metals […]
Australia has identified antimony, gallium and rare earth elements as priority materials for its planned A$1.2 billion ($802 million) critical minerals reserve, underscoring its ambition to play a stabilising role in increasingly fragile global supply chains. The announcement was made on Monday as Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepared to join finance ministers from the Group of […]
