The Elements of Innovation Discovered
The Elements of Innovation Discovered
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The largest Peruvian business delegation in U.S. history shows steps towards a greener future. Just a few short months ago, a record-breaking delegation of over 300 Peruvian business leaders attended MINExpo 2024, the premier mining conference hosted by the National Mining Association in Las Vegas. This marked the largest Peruvian delegation ever to attend the event, underscoring the growing importance of our partnership with the U.S. in the mining sector. But why has the...
Accurate and verifiable data provides a path to improving economics, optimizing resources, engaging stakeholders, and attracting talent. With a warming planet and unpredictable extreme weather events, all business leaders are faced with increasing and more complex challenges, costs, and regulatory oversight. Having access to accurate and verifiable real-time information about business impacts and activities is quickly becoming a necessity in navigating budgeting and...
Satellite connectivity, quality 3D multiphysics data, and AI offer faster decision-making at every stage of the exploration journey. Technological innovation is the cornerstone of human progress. At their best, the foundational technologies of the modern world – such as the global internet, digital technologies, space travel, clean energy, and AI – fill me with the belief that hard problems are not permanent fixtures in time and space. They are mutable barriers humanity must o...
An expensive new risk for Western manufacturers and their investors. This past June, German chemicals giant BASF backed out of a planned $2.6 billion nickel refinery in Weda Bay, Indonesia. While the company cited changing dynamics in the global nickel market, BASF also faced calls to abandon the project from environmental and human rights groups. BASF's decision to walk away should focus the clean energy and automotive sector's attention on a new risk profile: Indonesia's...
Changing how the West approaches globalism will be the key to a circular economy the whole world can get behind. The Western world has found itself in a unique crisis that has brought systemic vulnerabilities into sharp relief. An overreliance on problematic imports has been exposed (especially post-COVID) as a rat's nest of potential supply chain disruptions, global inequality, deregulation and competition-killing corporate consolidation – all while leaving the power of marke...
The United States and China are battling to secure stakes in copper mines around the world, and the stakes have never been higher. In a clash of titans, America and its free-market economy values compete against the Asian superpower with its stranglehold on copper resources and processing. With copper, the "red metal" critical to America's clean energy future, it's time to focus on developing domestic assets and amping up the country's process engineering. "We are in a second...
It will take a village for America to lead again in critical materials. While the patriotic rallying cry is clear, the critical thinking behind our country's commitment to critical materials is muddled. The U.S. is putting money where its mouth is – funding domestic critical minerals projects as well as imports from friendly nations – with the goal of reclaiming our leadership status from China. Critical materials, the collective noun for critical minerals and metals, are ess...
