RESEARCH

Seeking alchemy.

Independent research on acceleration in extractives.

Illustrative article titles and dates. Publication coming soon.

FEATURED / METALS & MINING

The next tonne.
At what cost?

Declining grades, rising capital intensity, and the technologies that could change the economics of copper supply.

6 September 2026Industry perspective

Oil painting of an open core tray with a geologist studying the samples

Latest research.

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Painterly close view of oilfield valves and pipes against a blue sky

More from the same rock.

What changes when recovery improves faster than the resource base grows?

Oil & Gas
Small figure standing beside an immense mining truck wheel

The mine that learns.

Where autonomy and better information could change mine productivity.

Metals & Mining

Time is a production variable.

Shorter development cycles and the economics of bringing supply forward.

Oil & Gas

Waste, reconsidered.

Tailings, new recovery methods, and the potential in what was left behind.

Metals & Mining