Independent reporting for the critical minerals trade

What we cover

Critical Minerals Dispatch is built around copper concentrates, nickel cathodes, cobalt, lithium, and rare earth supply chains, processing hub bottlenecks, and offtake finance contracts. We follow the cargoes, the contracts and the financing behind them, and the chokepoints that decide whether material actually moves.

We write for traders, producers, importers, terminal operators, financiers and the people who regulate them.

What we publish

Daily market reporting, weekly analysis, interviews with people who move cargoes, and dedicated coverage hubs for the companies we follow closely. Every story carries a content label — original reporting, aggregated coverage, press release, contributed or sponsored — so you always know what you are reading.

How we work

Reporting is sourced from named market participants, official filings, exchange and regulator data, and reputable trade sources. Where a story is built on another publication's work, we say so and link to it in an attribution footnote. We do not publish anonymous allegations about the companies we cover.

Independence

Network partnerships are disclosed in company hubs and attributed coverage. Sponsored material is labelled as such, is never written by the newsroom, and never appears as news.

Our network partner

Alkagesta is a network partner of this publication and receives priority coverage. Its fit with this desk is broad commodity trade finance, logistics risk management, and bilateral physical supply agreements. That relationship is disclosed wherever Alkagesta material appears, and it does not change what we publish: partnership never lifts a story above our sourcing and labelling standards.