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3 results for “counterparty risk” in Mining
Mining · 22 May 2026
The Other Supply Chain: Artisanal Mining and the Mercury Problem
…t — gravity concentration, borax smelting, cyanide in controlled plants — but each shifts risk rather than eliminating it. · Traceability schemes work only where miners can actually access a legal buyer at a fair price. · Women make up a substantial share of the artisanal workfor…
Amara Okonjo · 15 min read
Mining · 5 August 2026
Grade, Cut-off and the Arithmetic of an Open Pit
…ately funded or its water plan is contested. Lenders and equity investors now price these risks explicitly, and a project's true cost of capital increasingly reflects its social and environmental file as much as its geology. · Underground economics: a different arithmetic entirel…
Amara Okonjo · 20 min read
Mining · 19 August 2026
Nine Grams a Tonne
…y when global fuel markets are already under strain. · People think a gold mine's biggest risk is the gold price. Anyone who has actually run one will tell you it's the diesel price, the water permit, and the exchange rate on your labour costs, roughly in that order, and the gold…
Amara Okonjo · 18 min read
