🕳️ Released Phantom Node 120: The Russian Mining Proxies. Ghost Companies and the Theft of Strategic Metals
- Foundation date
15 January 2026
This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
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Mode: Legal Incognito / Technological Cannibalism / Over-the-Counter Circulation
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 120: The Russian Mining Proxies. Ghost Companies and the Theft of Strategic Metals
Economic stealth. The circulatory system of a shadow war for future technologies.
Who is this?
Russian mining proxies are not individual companies but a network of legal phantoms designed to control and extract strategic minerals. Registered as “local startups,” foundations, or joint ventures, they in fact serve the needs of the aggressor’s military-industrial complex. Their function is to make the theft of the future invisible.
Type of node:
Economic · financial · resource-technological
Status:
Outside jurisdictions · shielded by contracts
Form of control:
Legal mimicry · offshore chains · closed licenses · over-the-counter deals
Phantom image:
A transparent office with no walls, where documents are signed by a faceless figure.
What remains after the phantom:
A license, a stamp, a route, an empty deposit.
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
Shell companies, multi-layer offshore structures, private logistics, crypto settlements, and corrupted local elites.
How did it become a phantom?
When extraction was detached from the state and ownership from accountability. The company vanished, leaving only a contract behind.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Because of weak regulators, fragmented jurisdictions, and high global demand for strategic minerals.
Phantom’s condition:
Active · diffused · legally invisible.
After the regime:
— shell company networks exposed
— ultimate beneficiaries uncovered
— over-the-counter trade in strategic metals criminalized
— offshore financial channels blocked
— licenses and concessions audited
— illegally extracted resources seized
— international monitoring and market transparency restored
Collective reaction:
The future cannot be stolen in silence.
Technology cannot be built on shadows.
Resources remember.
Core principle:
When ownership becomes a phantom, accountability disappears first.
Alt-text:
Visualization of mining proxies: a semi-transparent figure signs lithium and rare metal extraction documents at a desk dissolving into a barren landscape, symbolizing the legal invisibility of economic plunder.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 15.01.2026
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration.
All depictions are allegorical; the piece does not allege facts about specific private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 120: Russian Mining Proxies — Ghost Companies and the Theft of Rare Metals.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"Economic Stealth." Node 120 is a network of ghost firms with no offices but licenses to billion-dollar assets. Its phantom nature lies in legal mimicry: they register as "local startups" or "humanitarian funds," yet their sole purpose is the extraction of strategic raw materials outside of international monitoring.
Regimes:
🕵️ Legal Incognito Regime: Utilizing hundreds of straw-man directors and rebranding companies every six months to evade sanction lists.
🧪 Technological Cannibalism Regime: Prioritizing the extraction of metals critical for microchip production and rocket fuel.
🌑 Off-Exchange Trading Regime: Selling metals via closed contracts directly to Russian or Chinese state corporations, bypassing global market transparency.
Tools:
📁 Shell Companies: Legal entities with no staff existing only on paper to sign concessions.
🚁 Private Aviation Logistics: Small airlines transporting ore as "diplomatic mail" or "humanitarian aid."
🔐 Crypto Gateways: Using stablecoins for payments to local corrupt elites, making transactions invisible to Western financial intelligence.
Civilizational Influences:
📉 Erosion of Global Standards (ESG): Disregarding environmental norms and utilizing child labor in proxy-controlled mines.
☢️ Resource Militarization: Converting the civilian mining sector into a component of the aggressor's war machine.
⚠️ Creation of a "Shadow Metal Market": Forming a parallel economy where strategic raw materials are traded for loyalty and weaponry.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 15.01.2026
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
