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Structured register of government actions in the geoeconomic space — export controls, tariffs, sanctions, FDI screening, subsidies, industrial-policy laws — cross-referenced into the country, minerals, and ETF surface. Charter: docs/IPTM_CHARTER.md.
Severity 1-5 is the qualitative impact rating (1=minor, 5=structural). The bilateral-trade-grounded quant scorer is the next IPTM milestone. RBI (Register Breadth Index) is a complementary structural-breadth indicator from scripts/py/iptm/breadth.py; divergence between RBI and severity is itself informative (high-sev / low-RBI = strategic chokepoint; low-sev / high-RBI = broad but shallow). Every action has at least one primary source URL. Verify-or-don't-file. See also themes, timeline, graph, sankey, map, country exposure, sector exposure, material exposure (+ graph), weekly briefs, portfolio scan, escalation monitor, trans-shipment hubs. Internal triage tools (RSS-poller candidate feed, source-feed health) live under /admin/candidates + /admin/sources. Subscribe via Atom feed (accepts ?country=CN, ?material=lithium, ?issuer=BIS, ?type=export_control, ?etf=SOXX, ?company=NVDA, ?minSeverity=4, ?year=2026, ?q=…) or pull /api/iptm/actions.
On 29 July 2026 Allied Gold Corporation (TSX/NYSE: AAUC) and Zijin Gold International Company Ltd. terminated their previously announced C$5.5B (~US$3.9-4B) arrangement agreement, under which Zijin Gold would have acquired 100% of Allied Gold, after concluding the deal's closing conditions would not be satisfied by the 29 July 2026 outside date. Trade press (ION Analytics/Dealreporter, Investing News Network, Ecofin Agency) reports the transaction stalled because China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) required in-depth review over two concerns: the premium Zijin was paying relative to Allied's market valuation, and geopolitical-risk concentration from Allied's exposure to Mali, which supplies roughly half of Allied's gold output (via the Sadiola mine). In place of the full takeover, Zijin Gold agreed same-day to a non-brokered private placement subscribing for ~12.8 million Allied common shares at C$32.55/share (~US$295M gross proceeds), taking a 9.2% stake expected to close on or about 10 August 2026. This is the first Chinese outbound mining M&A the register has logged since 2025-04-23, following a roughly 16-month gap, and marks an outbound-investment-screening precedent constraining a Chinese SOE-adjacent acquirer's exposure to Sahel political risk.
China's Ministry of Commerce issued Announcement No. 26 of 2026 on June 24, 2026, establishing a formal reporting and handling system for violations of export controls on strategic minerals and dual-use items, effective July 1, 2026. The mechanism opens two reporting channels — a dedicated hotline (010-12369) and an online portal (aqygzj.mofcom.gov.cn) — through which any organisation or individual may report suspected violations including unauthorised exports, circumvention via third-country re-routing, illegal technology transfers, and provision of services to sanctioned exporters. Anonymous reports are accepted; real-name reporters may qualify for monetary rewards; voluntary self-disclosure is treated as a mitigating factor in penalty determination. Service providers including freight forwarders and financial institutions face mandatory reporting obligations when they discover suspected violations in the course of business.
On 16 April 2026 the Government of Burkina Faso published Decree No. 2026-0287/PF/PRIM/MEF/MEMC in the Journal Officiel du Burkina Faso, authorising SOPAMIB — the state's strategic mining-participation vehicle — to acquire an additional 25% stake in Kiaka SA, the operating entity of West African Resources' (ASX: WAF) Kiaka gold mine, for 70 billion CFA francs (~A$175M / USD $125M). The acquisition raises total state equity from the 15% mandatory free-carry established under the 2024 Mining Code (Loi N°016-2024) to 40%, leaving West African Resources with a 60% operating interest; WAF's Sanbrado and Toega operations are not referenced in the decree. West African Resources confirmed the decree via an ASX regulatory announcement on 21 April 2026, noting that net proceeds will be returned to shareholders as a special dividend and that WAF will work with SOPAMIB to finalise transaction terms by end-2026. This action is structurally distinct from the June 2025 SOPAMIB nationalisation of five Endeavour/Lilium assets (Wahgnion, Boungou, three exploration entities), which involved a full transfer; the Kiaka decree is a compulsory additional equity dilution at a specific operating mine, deepening the Burkinabè junta's resource-nationalism arc under President Capt. Ibrahim Traoré.
On 7 April 2026, Morocco's Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, officially launched the Cadastre Minier Numérique du Maroc (dmcm.mem.gov.ma) at GITEX Africa in Marrakech — a national digital registry consolidating geological potential data, administrative records and regulatory information for all mining titles nationwide. The platform dematerialises permit application, renewal and monitoring procedures previously run through paper-based, region-by-region administrative circuits, and is framed by MTEDD as part of a broader ongoing mining sector reform. No budget, title count, or phased-deployment timeline was disclosed at launch.
Ghana's Parliament passed the Growth and Sustainability Levy (Amendment) Bill on March 13–14, 2026, reducing the GSL rate on mining companies' gross production from 3% to 1%; the Act received Presidential assent on March 31, 2026. The amendment is a deliberate companion offset to the Minerals and Mining (Royalty) Regulations, 2025, which replaced the prior flat royalty with a sliding-scale framework (5–12% indexed to gold price) effective March 2026. Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson framed the GSL cut as a strategic compromise to maintain investment competitiveness while the higher royalty regime captures the upside from gold prices above $4,000/oz; the net government-take trajectory is still upward at high gold prices, but mining companies receive partial relief on the levy side.
On 17 February 2026 Morocco's Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development (MTEDD), via its Direction Générale des Mines, published Notice n°1/DGMH/2026, an "appel public à la concurrence" opening 361 mining exploration/exploitation zones (~13,000 km², roughly 22% of the designated Tafilalet-Figuig mining region) spanning the Drâa-Tafilalet and Oriental regions for gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc and barite. Award is multi-criteria (technical, financial, and local socio-economic factors plus health/safety compliance) rather than price-only, reflecting the ESG principles adopted at Morocco's November 2025 International Mining Conference (Marrakech Declaration). Candidacy files are due 15 May 2026, filed with the regional MTEDD directorate in Errachidia (Drâa-Tafilalet blocks) or Oujda (Oriental blocks).
The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Mali, presided over by General Assimi Goïta at Koulouba Palace, adopted on 6 February 2026 texts creating Société de Patrimoine Minier du Mali (SOPAMIM S.A.) — a wholly state-owned société anonyme charged with holding and managing all state participations in mining companies, implementing the 10% free-carry + optional 20% paid + 5% national-private participation architecture introduced by the 2023 Mining Code. SOPAMIM provides the single corporate vehicle through which renegotiated or newly-awarded state stakes in foreign-operated mines (including Barrick Gold Loulo-Gounkoto, B2Gold Fekola, Allied Gold Sadiola, Resolute Mining Syama, and Endeavour Mining Hounde-Mali) will be consolidated, operationalising the Code Minier's mandate for a *société de patrimoine* and closing the corporate-vehicle gap in Mali's AES/Sahel resource-nationalism architecture.
The Council of Ministers of Côte d'Ivoire, chaired by President Alassane Ouattara, adopted two presidential decrees on 4 February 2026 granting industrial gold exploitation permits to AMPELLA MINING CÔTE D'IVOIRE SARL. The first is a 19-year permit for the Assafou-Didibango project (Endeavour Mining) covering an investment of CFA 451.31 billion (~USD 750M), with average annual production of 7.99 tonnes and total production of 120 tonnes; the second is a 14-year permit for the Doropo project (Resolute Mining, ASX: RSG) in north-eastern Côte d'Ivoire, producing 6.43 tonnes per year and 59 tonnes in total. Combined investment across both projects exceeds CFA 730 billion (~USD 1.25 billion), and both permits clear the final regulatory hurdle for construction to proceed.
Argentina's Ministry of Economy issued Resolución 6/2026 (Boletín Oficial, 15 January 2026) approving Minas Argentinas SA Sucursal Dedicada RIGI I – Nuevo Gualcamayo ("MASA-SD," CUIT 30-71915462-6) as a Único Proyecto beneficiary of the Régimen de Incentivo para Grandes Inversiones (RIGI) under Law 27.742. The project covers exploration of the Gualcamayo 1 and 2 mining concessions in San Juan province and feasibility/construction of a processing plant for the "Carbonatos Profundos (DCP)" gold-silver deposit, with a declared total investment of USD 519,647,635 in computable assets. MASA-SD's RIGI accession dates to 27 November 2025; it must complete 40% of the minimum qualifying investment within two years and reach the full minimum by 31 December 2028. This is a follow-on RIGI approval at the existing Gualcamayo mine site (operated by Minas Argentinas SA, owned by Eris LLC since a September 2023 acquisition from Colombia's Mineros S.A.), extending the mine's life via a new deep-carbonate ore body rather than a greenfield project.