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Open-pit gold mine at golden hour, aerial editorial photograph
Vol. II · Issue 07Saturday, 29 August 2026Aurumpivot.com
The Cover Story

Where gold meets governance.

Independent research on the operators, capital cycles and jurisdictions moving global commodities, written without the sell-side gloss.

Coverage
4 Desks
Archive
20+ Files
Cadence
Weekly

Analytical standards

  • Independent geological verification

    Resource claims are read against published survey data and categorised by confidence, never repeated as issued.

  • Regulatory compliance tracking

    Licence status, royalty terms and export permissions are checked against the primary register where one exists.

  • DGSM licensed operations analysis

    Ugandan coverage is scoped to operators holding current Directorate of Geological Survey and Mines titles.

The Pivot

A tape at four-thousand-dollar gold rewards the operators who kept discipline through the last down-cycle, and tempts everyone else into the classic top-of-cycle mistakes.

— From the editors, Saturday, 29 August 2026
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By Callum Rhodes · August 25, 2026
Aerial copper mine at dusk
The Editorial Line
Copper projects have ten-to-fifteen-year lead times. Anything that was not permitted by 2023 is not going to materially help the balance sheet before the end of this decade.
— Andres Karlsson · Base Metals Desk

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Gold near three-month high on debasement trade

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Andres Karlsson · August 25, 2026
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Tolukuma restart tests PNG's hardest gold logistics

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Callum Rhodes · August 13, 2026
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Johnson Tract: a gold mine inside a national park

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Helen Cartwright · August 13, 2026
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Gold Fields leans on Salares Norte to hit guidance

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White Gold's Yukon PEA: C$1.91bn value, tested

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Dr Ibrahim Wekesa · August 13, 2026