Apple Outweighs Every Listed Miner on Earth, and It Is Not Even the Biggest Company

One consumer-electronics company is now worth more than every publicly traded mining company on Earth combined. The graphic above captures the June 5 snapshot, when the 317 publicly traded miners tracked by CompaniesMarketCap were worth about $3.48 trillion

July 13, 2026

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Three Weeks Public, SpaceX Already Approaches the Value of Every Listed Miner on Earth

For 24 years SpaceX stayed private. Then, on June 12, 2026, it began trading on the Nasdaq in the largest IPO in history, priced at a $1.77 trillion valuation. Barely three weeks later the rocket and satellite maker is worth even more. As of early July, SpaceX carried a market capitalization of about $2.1 trillion, the seventh-highest of any public company on Earth, and it joins the Nasdaq-100 on July 7

July 7, 2026

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Mapped: Zinc's Use Across Five Industries and the 2030 Demand Outlook

We've covered zinc's role in energy, health, and sustainability before, alongside the supply base concentrated in a handful of mega-mines and the production map that has shifted toward Asia since the mid-1990s. The story of 2025 is what changed on the demand side. In November, the U.S. Geological Survey retained zinc on its final 2025 List of Critical Minerals.

June 9, 2026

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Lithium Use Cases: Batteries Now Consume 88% of Global Supply

In February 2026, the U.S. Geological Survey put a fresh number on a transformation that has been building for a decade: batteries now account for 88% of global lithium end-use, up from 87% a year earlier. The metal that once quietly toughened ceramics and thickened industrial greases has been almost entirely repurposed by the battery economy. As covered in our reporting on the shift from surplus to deficit, the supply side of this story is tightening.

May 28, 2026

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Sort First, Grind Later: The sensor technology reshaping polymetallic processing

Sensor-based sorting lets miners reject barren rock before it's ever crushed, saving energy, water, and tailings volume at industrial scale. Polymetallic deposits, the orebodies that carry multiple economically valuable metals in a single rock, present a distinctive processing challenge: the valuable minerals are locked together with each other and with vast volumes of barren rock, demanding both heavy grinding and complex multi-stage separation.

May 25, 2026

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CATL's 6-Minute Charge Closes the Gap with Gas — Without Cobalt or Nickel

On April 21, 2026, at its "Beyond the Pole" Tech Day in Beijing, CATL unveiled the third generation of its Shenxing battery, claiming a 10%-to-98% charge in 6 minutes 27 seconds. The launch came six weeks after BYD unveiled its second-generation Blade Battery with a 10%-to-97% charge in around 9 minutes.

May 20, 2026

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Helium: The Irreplaceable Element Caught in a Geopolitical Squeeze

The global helium market is currently buckling under an unprecedented crisis. Following recent geopolitical conflicts, a massive production halt at Qatar's LNG facilities has effectively removed roughly 30% of the world's helium supply from the market.

March 30, 2026

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2025 Global Exploration Budget by Commodity

With gold prices smashing through $4,600 an ounce in early 2026 amidst escalating geopolitical tensions and relentless central bank buying, the global mining sector's exploration priorities have shifted decisively toward safe havens. According to the recently released World Exploration Trends 2026 report from S&P Global Market Intelligence, global nonferrous exploration budgets experienced a slight 0.6% year-over-year dip to $12.40 billion in 2025. However, this top-line number masks a dramatic rotation beneath the surface.

March 24, 2026

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Lithium Market Balance: Visualizing the Shift from Surplus to Deficit by 2026

The global lithium market is undergoing a severe structural reversal. After a multi-year glut that crushed spot prices, the critical battery metal is careening toward a steep supply deficit by 2026. This shift isn't just a cyclical anomaly; it is a policy-driven correction. As Reuters recently reported in early 2026, an unprecedented energy storage boom is rapidly strengthening the demand outlook for the beaten-down metal.

March 23, 2026

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The Technical Case for Tin: Critical Applications in AI Hardware and Clean Energy

If you listed the metals defining the 21st century, tin might not make the top five. Yet, this ancient metal serves as a primary physical enabler for our most complex engineering challenges: AI hardware, advanced batteries, and nuclear fusion.

February 26, 2026

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Lithium Reserves By Country 2024

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February 19, 2026

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Zinc’s Evolving Role in Energy, Health, and Sustainability

While lithium, cobalt, and copper often dominate discussions about future-critical resources, zinc plays an equally vital, though often overlooked, role.

February 10, 2026

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The World’s Largest Lead Mines

Lead often lacks the futuristic allure of lithium or copper, but without it, the modern world would quite literally blink out.

January 5, 2026

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Commodities

Apple Outweighs Every Listed Miner on Earth, and It Is Not Even the Biggest Company

Three Weeks Public, SpaceX Already Approaches the Value of Every Listed Miner on Earth

Mapped: Zinc's Use Across Five Industries and the 2030 Demand Outlook

Lithium Use Cases: Batteries Now Consume 88% of Global Supply

Sort First, Grind Later: The sensor technology reshaping polymetallic processing

CATL's 6-Minute Charge Closes the Gap with Gas — Without Cobalt or Nickel

Helium: The Irreplaceable Element Caught in a Geopolitical Squeeze

2025 Global Exploration Budget by Commodity

Lithium Market Balance: Visualizing the Shift from Surplus to Deficit by 2026

The Technical Case for Tin: Critical Applications in AI Hardware and Clean Energy

Lithium Reserves By Country 2024

Zinc’s Evolving Role in Energy, Health, and Sustainability

The World’s Largest Lead Mines