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Mining news API

Extraction, mineral supply, mine operations and permitting. Pass topic=WB_895_MINING_SYSTEMS to filter.

1.0karticles
552outlets
2per outlet

What does the mining topic actually cover?

Mine development and operation, mineral output, permitting and the community and environmental questions around extraction. Concentrated in a small number of producing countries and a specialist trade press.

How do I filter news to mining?

Pass topic=WB_895_MINING_SYSTEMS on /search or /stories. Australian, Canadian, Chilean and South African outlets carry the operational reporting. Pair with a country filter and the energy signal; general coverage is dominated by commodity price commentary rather than production.

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GET /stories?topic=WB_895_MINING_SYSTEMS&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with mining coverage?

Price coverage and production coverage use overlapping language but answer different questions. If you are tracking supply, the specialist and regional press is where output figures appear; the financial press reports the price reaction days later.

Who publishes on it

Mining trade press, regional outlets in producing areas, and national business press on commodity prices. Australian, Canadian, Chilean and South African coverage carries the operational reporting; everything else is price commentary.

In the sample, 552 outlets carry mining coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is baomoi.com at roughly 5%, and baomoi.com, tribunnews.com, cnfol.com account for about 10% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for tracking mine development, output and permitting when paired with a producing country. Weakest for commodity price analysis, where the financial press reports the reaction rather than the cause and arrives days after the operational reporting.

Monitoring it over time

Operational reporting and price commentary arrive days apart from different publishers, and only the first is predictive. Scope to producing countries and their trade press for supply signals, and treat the financial coverage that follows as confirmation that the market noticed rather than as new information. Community and land-rights reporting is the third stream and it behaves unlike the other two: it is produced by domestic and non-profit outlets, it precedes operational disruption by months rather than following it, and it is invisible to any query scoped to trade or financial titles. Where a project is contested, that stream is the earliest available warning that a timeline is about to move.

Which signals pair with mining?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

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GET /search?topic=WB_895_MINING_SYSTEMS&signal=energy&signal_min=0.25

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Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

baomoi.com · tribunnews.com · cnfol.com · stockbiz.vn · cfi.net.cn · sina.com.cn · vnexpress.net · udn.com · china.com · jrj.com.cn · dailynews.co.th · 163.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.