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title: 'The Mine Lead-Time Fallacy'
url: 'https://inspire-resources.ca/blog/the-mine-lead-time-fallacy'
markdown: 'https://inspire-resources.ca/blog/the-mine-lead-time-fallacy.md'
date: '2025-08-03'
description: 'By Andy Reynolds In May of this year, the Marathon copper-palladium project received its final construction permit. I was floored to learn that this important critical mineral deposit is hosted in rocks that date from the Archean Eon, which means that it took the Ontario Government more than 2.5 bi…'
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    - aug_2025
  archives_year:
    - '2025'
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# The Mine Lead-Time Fallacy

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