Cecilia Jamasmie
Cecilia Jamasmie is editor-in-chief at MINING.COM, covering the business of global mining through corporate deals, commodity markets and the industry’s social licence to operate. Her reporting links boardroom decisions, price cycles and regulatory shifts to their impact on mines, projects and supply chains across metals and regions.
Global mining deals and corporate strategy
Jamasmie’s recent work follows major mining mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, with close attention to deal value, strategic rationale and execution risk.
She reports on transactions such as multi‑billion‑dollar gold and base metals takeovers, breaking down how approvals, funding and minority stakes reshape growth plans. Her coverage of mining deals reaching quarterly records emphasizes the shift from pure consolidation to partnerships aimed at securing supply chains and critical metals exposure. She also tracks corporate overhauls, including leadership changes, division mergers and asset reviews at large diversified miners, highlighting how these programs reallocate capital and reset portfolios. Across these stories, she consistently anchors coverage in numbers, timelines and strategic outcomes rather than deal hype.
Commodity cycles and critical minerals
Commodity price dynamics are a core thread in her reporting, especially in gold, diamonds and battery metals. She writes on gold price rallies and reversals, using spot levels, historical comparisons and investor positioning to explain the pressure on miners and royalty firms.
Her pieces on diamonds detail how valuation swings can cut the price tag of long‑established businesses to a fraction of their former worth, tying industry weakness to broader changes in consumer demand and synthetic alternatives. Battery metals and rare earths feature prominently in her work, including lithium price rebounds that underpin mine restarts, cobalt surplus warnings from major producers, and new US‑backed projects aimed at diversifying rare earth supply chains in Africa.
She also follows evolving critical minerals lists, showing how additions such as copper, potash, silicon and silver reflect policymakers’ concern over disruption risk and geographic concentration. Across these markets, she frames price moves within the interplay of technology, geopolitics and long‑term supply requirements for the energy transition.
Projects, operations and risk events
Jamasmie regularly reports on mine development milestones, operational disruptions and restarts, with an emphasis on production guidance and project economics. Her coverage ranges from new gold mines in West Africa and Côte d’Ivoire to copper, zinc and critical metals projects tied to national stockpiles and strategic reserves, outlining expected output, all‑in sustaining costs and start‑up timelines.
She follows ore processing starts at new operations such as Atlantic Canada’s large gold mine, noting commissioning schedules and first‑gold targets. At the other end of the cycle, she reports on temporary shutdowns and subsequent restarts, including wildfire‑related pauses at Quebec operations and precautionary halts that leave annual guidance intact.
Stories on mine collapses, accidents and workforce layoffs document safety incidents, job impacts and company responses in concise detail. Her work on nationalization moves and forced stake changes, such as the Burkina Faso government’s demands on a gold project, highlights how sudden policy decisions can trigger trading halts and reshape ownership structures. The anchor article on Core Lithium’s restart of the Finniss mine during a price rebound fits squarely within this pattern of project‑level coverage tied to market conditions.
Governance, policy and social licence
Governance, regulation and community expectations are a longstanding focus in Jamasmie’s mining coverage. She reports on tax and royalty changes in countries such as Guatemala and Belarus, connecting rate hikes and export tariff decisions to miner profitability and investment sentiment.
Articles on Chile’s legislative proposals show how mining‑specific tax cuts, permitting reforms and growth measures are designed to balance fiscal needs with competitiveness. Her work also covers nationalization and resource ownership debates, detailing how government moves in West Africa and elsewhere unsettle corporate plans and regional sectors.
Earlier stories have examined studies on worker satisfaction that rank mining among the unhappiest industries, bringing employee experience into conversations usually dominated by production and prices. Recent pieces on disinformation campaigns targeting the African mining sector explore how bot networks and AI‑driven narratives can influence public opinion and geopolitical competition around resource projects.
The outlet’s own description of her interests in corporate social responsibility, diamonds and Latin American mining aligns with this body of work, reflecting a sustained engagement with social licence and regional dynamics as business issues rather than side topics.
Alongside her newsroom role, Jamasmie has more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and has covered the mining industry for almost two decades, bringing continuity and historical context to her reporting on cycles, companies and commodities.
She has contributed analysis and commentary on mining to broadcast interviews and industry conferences, reinforcing her focus on the intersection of corporate strategy, markets and societal expectations. The result is coverage that treats mining as a global business system where deals, prices, projects and social licence are tightly linked.
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