2026 Agenda Sessions

Critical Mineral Ecosystems (CMEs): A New Model for Raw Material Supply Security

This workshop introduces Critical Mineral Ecosystems (CMEs) as a new, coordinated model to secure raw materials needed for clean energy, mobility, and digital industries amid soaring demand and fragmented global supply. CMEs address core system-level challenges—misaligned price signals, scale coordination, capital constraints, legal fragmentation, and ESG inconsistencies—by orchestrating companies, governments, and investors under shared rules and risk-mitigation tools such as pooled offtake and volatility management. Inspired by models like H2Global, CMEs aim to accelerate project bankability, provide buyers with stable and traceable ESG-compliant supply, and enable producing nations to capture fair value.  

Join us at Mining Indaba 2026 to explore how this shift from competition to coordination can redefine mineral supply security.