Four New Zealand firms took mining technology to Brazil's largest mining fair in August. New Zealand's own July 2026 report on Guyana names mining-adjacent opportunities and says its trade agency has no established networks in the Caribbean. Trade runs about twenty to one.
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Chile, Argentina and Brazil are trying to refine lithium at home, and Brazil passed a critical-minerals policy this month. Guyana's airborne survey is looking for lithium and rare earths, and it has no dedicated critical-minerals law on the public record.
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Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat says gas at Wales can support two power plants totalling 600 megawatts, a propane plant and a data centre. The Gas-to-Energy project under construction is 300 MW, and its first turbine, 57 MW, is due around 4 December.
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The US designated four Cuban nickel companies, four military research centres and three officers under Executive Order 14404 on 17 September 2026, the third round in four weeks to reach the nickel industry at Moa and Nicaro.
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Omai Gold Mines published a preliminary economic assessment on 19 August proposing a US$1.42 billion gold mine in Guyana. Under the state's own published mining regime, large-scale gold pays an 8 per cent royalty above US$1,000 an ounce. Stabroek oil pays 2 per cent.
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Guyana applies 1.5 per cent to every grade of bauxite. India separates the classes, charging 0.60 per cent on smelter ore and 25 per cent on the specialty grade, about seventeen times the Guyanese rate.
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Five Guyanese mineral agreements carry the same stability and compensation clause, word for word. Guyana signalled in 2025 it may extend local content rules to mining. That clause is what any such law would meet.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Guyana from 9 to 12 August to discuss energy and critical minerals, two days after the Department of War took equity in a Guyanese bauxite mine. The royalty on that mine is 1.5 per cent, and deductible.
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An US$85.5m equity investment, with US$64.5m private co-investment, to acquire and expand the First Bauxite mine in Guyana and build calcination there. The ore is refractory grade, and America was already buying 78 per cent of it.
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