Resources Policy

1974 - 2026

Current editor(s): R. G. Eggert

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Volume 121, issue C, 2026

The critical minerals value-addition myth: Why mineral-rich countries may struggle to realize added value

Gretel Cuevas Verdin, Baptiste Andrieu and Jonathan M. Cullen

From the war over strategic metals to critical metals at war: Supply concentration and instruments of control in strategic mineral markets

Michel Jébrak

Balancing economic impact and resource sustainability: A system dynamics evaluation of mineral downstreaming policies in Indonesia

Andri Budhiman Firmanto, Dermawan Wibisono, Manahan Parlindungan Saragih Siallagan, Mohammad Zaki Mubarok and Dinda Thalia Andariesta

Beyond certifications: Questioning the design and economic effects of the canadian ethical diamond policy

Maria Giovanna Bosco

Waste not, want not: Materialities, identity, and politics in Zambia's ‘Black Mountains’

Aidan Barlow

Strategic stockpiling of critical minerals as public policy: A bibliometric mapping of the evidence base, research fronts, and policy narratives

Juan Ignacio Guzmán and Alina Karpunina

Enhancing mineral supply chain resilience in the Global South: insights from the natural zeolite sector

Jessica Costa Cruz, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Rodolfo Leandro de Faria Olivo and Cristina Lourenço Ubeda

Leveraging the polluter pays principle to address ecosystem degradation from unlawful mining in Ghana

Hanna Louisa Bisiw-Kotei, Frank Hayford, Christian Kofi Anthonio, Noah Appiah Kubi and Jil-Nathaniel Addo

Geopolitical risk and critical mineral trade: Threats, acts, and processing depth in Turkiye's boron and chromite exports, 2000–2024

Muhammet Mustafa Kahraman

Greenland and rare earth elements: Geological potential, regulatory constraints, and economic realities in the Arctic

Gastón Sanglier Contreras, Carlos Miguel Iglesias Sanz, Eduardo José López Fernández and Roberto Alonso González Lezcano

Knowledge, perceptions and expectations of Quebec residents regarding rare earth element mining: characteristics associated with social acceptability

Kossivi Fabrice Dossa, Karine Dufresne, Yanick Dufresne, Dominic Larivière and Damase P. Khasa

From extraction to value addition: Technical, relational and political capabilities in resource-based supplier development

Anabel Marín and José Morales-Villagomez

Financing critical-mineral infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Developmental de-risking or green financial extractivism in the DRC and Zimbabwe?

Paul Mukoki and Kennedy Manduna

Retraction notice to “Minor mining, major influence: Economic implications and policy challenges of artisanal gold mining” [Resources Policy 91 (2024) 104886]

Miaozhi Yu, Yifan Wang and Muhammad Umair

Mapping the global nickel ore trade networks and the competitiveness of nickel-exporting countries

Reninta Dewi Nugraheni, Iwan Hermawan, Carunia Mulya Firdausy and Shiddiq Sugiono

Beyond enclave extraction: Gendering Women's entrepreneurship in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's CPEC mineral economy and regional connectivity

Saiqa Bibi and Younas Khan

Diversifying the midstream: Türkiye's role in a prospective Africa–Europe critical minerals corridor

Mehmet Dogan Ucok

Decades of artisanal and small-scale mining formalization in Ghana: GoldBod reform and the political economy of gold trade governance

Kenneth Joseph Bansah, Jeffrey Emmanuel Akoto-Domey, Wisdom Edem Gomashie and Lilian Owusu

Volume 120, issue C, 2026

Australia, Chile and Finland's energy transition minerals policy: trends and implications

Diana Carolina Arbeláez-Ruiz, Rauno Sairinen, Julia Loginova, Juha Kotilainen, Nigel Wight and Tina Soliman-Hunter

The critical dominance opportunity index: Redefining the structural measure of contestability in critical minerals value-chains

Nicholas Andrew Vafeas

Haunted by the past: Memory, legacy, and the struggle for future in resource communities

Monica Gruezmacher and Kristof Van Assche

Midstream concentration and geopolitical risk in critical mineral supply chains: A scenario-based assessment of refining chokepoints in the energy transition

Mehmet Dogan Ucok

Residual liability in oil and gas decommissioning. A comparative analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks in Ghana and Nigeria

Kweku Ainuson

Oil price states and drivers: An analysis of the second-month spot-futures price differential

Gbadebo Oladosu, Rocio Uria-Martinez, Paul Leiby and Megan Johnson

Mining industry transformations and labor market effects in mining regions of developing resource-rich countries

Manuel Pérez-Trujillo and Miguel Atienza

Critical mineral supply-chain resilience: An integrated security framework for producer, processor, and import-dependent economies

Shashi Arya, Steinar Løve Ellefmo and Kurt Aasly

Governing Eurasian critical mineral supply chains: Institutional lessons from the Southern Gas Corridor

Ibrahim Said Arinc

Resource use efficiency in global phosphate rock production

Anna Shchiptsova

Between acceleration and environmental protection: Legal tensions in the recovery of Critical Raw Materials

Maria Pettersson, Oskar Johansson and Michelle Engman

Impacts from mining on cultural values of water: Overcoming policy fragmentation at the domestic and international scale

Evan Hamman, Jacqui Robertson, Joshua Matanzima and Gavin Chandra

Temporary price effects of China’s rare earth export quotas: Evidence from the 2010–2012 market disruption

Gökhan Binzat and Cahit Armağan Dilek

Fiscal-monetary interactions and commodity prices in a commodity-exporting economy

Gan-Ochir Doojav

Modernisation in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM): Governance, technology, market integration and contested development pathways

Michael Mayom Ajith

Land reclamation policy effectiveness in Ghana's artisanal mining sector: A perception-based study of the knowledge-compliance paradox in Bosome Freho District

Scholastica Akalibey, Jiří Schneider, Jitka Fialová, Albert Ahenkan, Dastan Bamwesigye and Obed Asamoah

Improving the reliability of mine reclamation planning under uncertainty using classical and fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making methods with alternative compatibility

Majid Noorian-Bidgoli

Mining commitments, macroeconomic regime shifts and commodity-cycle exposure: Evidence from Simandou in Guinea

Hamidou Diallo

The SOMIKA–SOCOMIACO mining conflict in Haut-Katanga, DRC: A nodal governance perspective

Espérant Mwishamali Lukobo and Jelle Janssens

The costs of conflict: Financial consequences of Indigenous rights-related conflicts for mining firms in Peru

Doron Tadmor and Witold Henisz

Misaligned governance in Indonesia’s nickel boom: Design and capacity failures in the Mandiodo Block

Abdul Kadir, Muh. Amir, Jamaluddin Hos, Muh. Jufri Dewa and Eka Suaib

Volume 119, issue C, 2026

Identifying key natural gas drivers towards China's carbon neutrality through a novel temporal shrinkage framework

Jinyong Sung, Xunpeng Shi, Sven Teske and Mengheng Li

New onset cycle of mining and oil exports in Niger: an assessment of related-revenue allocation policy

Alain L. Babatoundé and Kalidou Diallo

Mapping the evolving landscape of the natural resource curse: A global bibliometric assessment

Chiraz Karamti and Abir Grairi

Information flow between rare earth elements-related equities and financial markets: a transfer entropy-based analysis

Benjamin M. Tabak and Lucas Silveira Pordeus

Aspiration versus Capacity: The case of critical raw materials for electromobility in Canada

Marianna Ottoni, Christoph Helbig and Komal Habib

(Rural) Resources and communities: historical pathways of the cement industry in Katana and Kabimba, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Divin-Luc Bikubanya

Structural inertia and market friction in global fossil fuel trade: A longitudinal network analysis of resource path dependencies

Andry Alamsyah, Dian Puteri Ramadhani and A. Sasikirana Zahrani

Critical review of Indian mining laws: Revenue-loss loopholes, illegal extraction pathways, and lessons from global best practice frameworks

Arnav Prakash Thakur

Does oil and gas dependence offset the inequality-reducing effects of financial development? A comparative analysis of oil- and gas-dependent and non-dependent economies

Mahboubeh Davoudi, Masoud Nili and Seyed Ali Madanizadeh

Strengthening resilience in clean energy mineral supply Chains: The role of innovations and governance regimes across emerging economies

Waseem Hassan, Deyi Xu, Han Sun, Noor Ellahi, Mojawir Ahmad Sadat, Mehreen Hassan, Zohaib Hassan and Mansoor Ahmed

Circular economy pathways for rare earth magnets: integrating dynamic MFA, environmental externality internalization, and policy simulation

Zegui Sun

Mineral demand from AI data centers: Infrastructure intensity, processing bottlenecks, and supply competition

Macdonald Amoah, Maxwell Brown, Adam Simon, Morgan Bazilian and Jahara Matisek

Rare earth elements leaching from phosphogypsum derived from magmatic and sedimentary phosphate ore

Hajar Bellefqih, Hamid Mazouz, Nils Haneklaus, Sofia Barbosa, João Cruz, Pedro Catalão-Moura, Sofia Pessanha, Diogo Neves and Essaid Bilal

Global evolution and methodologies of critical minerals assessment: A comprehensive multidimensional analysis of impact factors

Anvar Mammadli, George Barakos, Ping Chang and Michael Hitch

Threshold effects in oil–metal volatility spillovers: Evidence from industrial and precious metals

Markos Farag

Energy transition, supply chains, and geopolitical asymmetry: a structural reading of the U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal

Mariusz Baranowski, Piotr Jabkowski and Daniel M. Kammen

Analysis of artisanal and small-scale mining accidents in Tanzania

B.F. Giyani and M.S. Dotto

Framework for logistic and ESG risk integration with feedback loops: A decision-support tool for mineral exploration and development

Aaron Thompson, Christopher J.M. Lawley, Mohammad Parsa and Steven E. Zhang

Reframing the social license to operate under moral asymmetry

Jaques Paes, Fabricio Stocker and Rajiv Maher