Before it was yours, it was mined

Global demand for mined products is increasing dramatically alongside an unmistakable national and security demand for energy and mineral independence. The mining sector is a necessary component for delivering economic and manufacturing security, provided we can harness the natural, albeit overdue, alignment between existing and future mining communities, policy makers, and the industry operators themselves.

The world is witnessing a remarkable confluence of events – events that, if harnessed effectively, offer extraordinary opportunity for a mining resurgence, including:

1. A policy environment with explicit focus on improving national security and broad-based energy resilience and independence.
2. A domestic and regional mining industry that recognises its role in being an integral part of the solution, as a responsible and trustworthy steward of land and member of local communities.
3. The ever-accelerating onset of new technologies and solutions supporting responsible development, including a burgeoning space-tech sector offering new levels of visibility into the world.

This window of opportunity to benefit from accelerated mining project development may be short-lived, and the time to support it is now.

A restoration of trust/satellites for trust and transparency

The satellite revolution and rapidly expanding space-tech industry offer ready access to new intelligence on global infrastructure, including frequent and rapid imagery collection and monitoring and intelligence reporting for individual mine sites around the world. While such insights can provide operational benefits across the lifecycle of these assets, they also offer, perhaps most importantly, opportunity for community engagement surrounding planning and stewardship, creating trust through objective transparency. Since the start of 2025, a service is now available to provide mining operators weekly updated satellite intelligence for their sites.

Orbital Advisors

Mining is an industry that acknowledges, and even embraces, reasonable concerns and sensitivities of local communities, indigenous populations, and environmentalists, while recognising that its products are contained in literally everything that that is not wet, grown, or breathed.

Orbital Advisors is committed to responsible mining and fostering the needed dialogue between the industry, its sincere sceptics, and its broad bench of legitimate stakeholders. The company is also dedicated to genuine sustainability – namely, the sustainability of life which requires, more than anything else, continued access to plentiful, affordable, and responsibly sourced resources.

It has been said that “perhaps we would all be happier if we could have everything we need without having to find it first and dig it up. But that simply is not an option.” Orbital Advisors offers the solution.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/04042025/before-it-was-yours-it-was-mined/