Special Address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
Panelists framed critical minerals as strategic assets shaped by AI, electrification, decarbonization, and geopolitical fragmentation. They highlighted copper supply shortfalls by 2035, Saudi Arabia’s fast permitting and mining strategy, and Southern Africa’s push to avoid pit-to-port extraction through regional coordination and beneficiation.
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