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EU selects critical minerals projects in Spain and Portugal

Rank
Running
17h
Updated
14h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
7
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
3

La Vanguardia Spain · Spanish 9 Oct, 09:37 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Português (3) · Română (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 7 after 18 hours.

2 4 6 8
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: La Vanguardia, 9 Oct, 09:37 UTC.
  2. Second country: Romania, with G4Media.
  3. Second region: Americas, with Infobae.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 9 Oct, 09:37 UTC.
  5. Now: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

19 of 19 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

  • Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
  • Europe 6 outlets · 3 countries · 86%

First movers

  1. La Vanguardia 9 Oct, 09:37 UTC
  2. G4Media +12m
  3. RTP +33m
  4. Infobae +39m
  5. Observador +1h 12m

Latest arrivals

  1. Público 9 Oct, 13:24 UTC
  2. ABC 9 Oct, 11:33 UTC
  3. Observador 9 Oct, 10:49 UTC
  4. Infobae 9 Oct, 10:16 UTC
  5. RTP 9 Oct, 10:10 UTC

The figures

Coverage
7 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 7 outlets, 1 public-service, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Americas 1: Argentina. Europe 3: Portugal, Romania, Spain. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian.
Timeline
Earliest article La Vanguardia, 9 Oct 2026, 09:37 UTC. First seen 9 Oct 2026, 10:10 UTC. Last seen 9 Oct 2026, 13:24 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.34, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
9 Oct 2026 145 4.99 7 4 7 4 4.6

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Started 9 Oct, 10:10 UTC · Updated 13:24 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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  • Público Portugal 9 Oct, 13:24 UTC
    Reactivação da mina de volfrâmio da Borralha é projecto estratégico da UE
  • ABC Spain 9 Oct, 11:33 UTC
    Bruselas elige dos proyectos españoles más en los estratégicos para el suministro de minerales raros de la UE
  • Observador Portugal 9 Oct, 10:49 UTC
    Mina da Borralha selecionado pela UE como ponto estratégico
  • Infobae Argentina 9 Oct, 10:16 UTC
    Bruselas elige dos proyectos españoles más en los estratégicos para el suministro de minerales raros de la UE
  • RTP Portugal 9 Oct, 10:10 UTC
    Projeto da Mina da Borralha selecionado pela UE como estratégico na extração em Portugal
  • G4Media Romania 9 Oct, 09:49 UTC
    Comisia Europeană selectează 46 de noi proiecte strategice pentru a consolida aprovizionarea UE cu materii prime critice. România, printre cele 16 țări selectate
  • La Vanguardia Spain 9 Oct, 09:37 UTC
    La UE elige otros dos proyectos españoles en su estrategia para extraer materias primas críticas
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