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The District Scale Shift

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September 28, 2026

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The era of treating a single mine as an isolated asset is ending. Major and mid-tier mining companies are moving toward a “hub-and-spoke” model—locking up entire geological corridors across 50-to-100-kilometer radiuses. This allows them to use one central processing facility to process ore from multiple surrounding satellite deposits, heavily insulating them against commodity price volatility.

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