Barrick Gold Corporation announced the restart of its operations at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea and will share 49% of the new project with its Chinese partner, Zijin Mining Group.
When the Biden administration abandoned Afghanistan last year, they didn’t just leave behind Americans and a strategic air base hundreds of miles away from the Chinese border. They also essentially put up a "free minerals" sign for an estimated $1 trillion to $3 trillion worth of lithium, copper, and other rare earth minerals buried below Afghanistan’s surface.