Skillings Mining Review January 2025: our cover package, Iron Ore 2025, maps the new cycle—where demand shifts, grade requirements, and low-carbon steel targets are reshaping cost curves and trade flows. We pair this with market and policy signals that matter now: nickel at a four-year low, a 920% U.S. tariff push on graphite, and China’s new critical-minerals export curbs.
The supply chain reconfigures through action—American Rare Earths advancing in Wyoming, U.S.–Canada cooperation on critical minerals, and Biden’s Africa visit highlighting partnerships. On permitting and capital, we examine fast-track plays and where a potential $1B pipeline could land. Technology and operations get equal weight—low-carbon shotcrete at Outokumpu and the green/smart stack changing productivity and safety.
We also confront hard realities: injury rates tied to training gaps, alleged harassment class actions at Australian mine sites, illegal mining pressures in Zimbabwe, and Alberta’s coal debate. Rounding it out: uranium’s revival case, Rio Tinto–Sumitomo copper-gold collaboration, and a concise 2024 trendbook + stats to start the year with clarity.
