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3T

This group of metals used to produce the world's electronic devices - coltan, tin, tantalum, tungsten, cassiterite, tantalite and wolframite - are largely extracted from Africa's Great Lakes region, essentially on the Democratic Republic of Congo side.

NAMIBIA Mining 28/07/2021

Arcadia Minerals starts tantalum exploration in Raubex's shadow

The newcomer to mineral exploration in Namibia is run by serial entrepreneur Jurie Wessels and 27% owned by South African construction group Raubex, but this is not the first time they have worked together. [...]

SOMALIA Mining 19/07/2021

Mining code: Mogadishu's uncertain message for attracting investors

In order to convince foreign miners to invest in the country's resources, the Somali government has promised that a specific code is being prepared to replace the one from 1984 - while also admitting that it does not know when it will be adopted. [...]

Spotlight CHINA SIERRA LEONE Mining 14/07/2021

Freetown aims to break DRC's grip on China phone sector

The government has granted a Chinese company a licence to extract coltan at an industrial scale. Its ambition is to compete with other African countries in supplying electronics giants. [...]

DRC Mining 30/06/2021

Uganda's Dott Services snaps up mining permits with its road construction contracts

Dott Services, the Ugandan group which is building a strategically important road between the DRC and Uganda, has also acquired a number of equally strategically important mining sites. Prospecting is now under way on the sites, which are located in Maniema province and are rich in "3Ts". [...]

United States President Joseph R. Biden Jr. speaks during the Virtual CEO Summit on Semiconductor and Supply Chain at the White House in Washington, on Monday, April 12, 2021. Seated with Biden, clockwise from bottom left, are Daleep Singh, United States Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, Brian Deese, Director, National Economic Council, and US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. © AmrAlfiky/picturealliance/ConsolidatedNewsPhotos/Newscom/MaxPPP

UNITED STATES Mining 16/06/2021

US plays catch-up with EU on conflict minerals to turn page on Trump era

Joe Biden and his advisors are busy making up for lost time after Donald Trump's lack of action relegated Washington to following Brussels' initiatives on mining supply chain transparency. [...]

SIERRA LEONE Mining 01/06/2021

Government to flaunt mineral wealth in London, Dubai, and Moscow

After presenting the findings of a two-year study of the country's mining resources in Freetown, the Sierra Leone government now wants to tout this potential to the world's investors. [...]

GREAT LAKES Mining 24/05/2021

How more responsible mining can mean more profit

Praised by those advocating more ethical business, decried by others for their prohibitive cost, the accountability and traceability measures presented at the OECD Forum on Mineral Supply Chains are seen as key to profitability by some miners. [...]

A miner holding coltan in a mine in Rukunda, Masisi territory, North Kivu province, DRC. © Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Focus RWANDA DRC GREAT LAKES Mining 17/05/2021

DRC wants back in driver's seat on coltan

Tired of seeing coltan from its Kivu and Tanganyika mines processed and re-exported by its neighbours, Kinshasa plans to create facilities and smelters to process the ore on site. The initiative comes amid a warming of relations between the DRC and Rwanda, the country through which most of its coltan passes. [...]

DRC Mining 11/05/2021

Chamber of mines, civil society anxious as generals take charge of two eastern provinces

Given that problems at mines in the east of the country are often linked to the armed forces, the installation of military governments in Nord Kivu and Ituri is a source of concern. [...]

Seychelles Revenue Commission Chairman, Chrystold Chetty. © Facebook

SEYCHELLES Business Finance 03/05/2021

Chrystold Chetty, chairman of the Seychelles Revenue Commission, has his work set out for him

Chrystold Chetty, reappointed as chairman of the Seychelles Revenue Commission (SRC) in April, and SRC Commissioner Veronique Herminie are under pressure from the OECD, the European Union and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). [...]

GREAT LAKES Mining 22/04/2021

Producers and foreign buyers clash over mineral traceability costs

Concerns over the unequal distribution of the cost of checking the origins of "3T" minerals between upstream operators in the African Great Lakes region and downstream operators outside the region have become increasingly acute as a result of Covid-19 and the increase in world tin prices. [...]

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame. © Reuters

RWANDA CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Diplomacy Business 07/04/2021

Kagame backs embattled Touadéra on all fronts

On top of diplomatic and military aid to the Central African Republic, Rwanda has quietly been placing its pawns in the country's mining sector and has its sights set on various infrastructure projects. This economic entryism is made possible by a handful of advisors close to the CAR president. [...]

DRC Mining 16/03/2021

South Kivu elite battle for share of Luhihi gold rush

Since gold was discovered last year in Luhihi, near the town of Bukavu in the DR Congo, diggers have been flocking to the area. Traditional chiefs, provincial notables, military leaders, and various other officials have also joined the chaotic scramble to extract money from the site. [...]

UGANDA Mining 12/03/2021

Accused of links to conflict minerals, African Gold Refinery fires broadside at EU

Uganda's African Gold Refinery has slammed the European Union's new mining traceability rules, which it says are designed to prevent Africa from processing ore locally. This attack appears to be a way of responding to accusations of being involved in the smuggling of gold from the Great Lakes region. [...]

IVORY COAST Mining 23/02/2021

Guggenheim clan want greater share of country's mines

The wealthy American Guggenheim family has applied for new exploration permits in Ivory Coast, this time adding other minerals to its coltan activities. But the Ivorian government has still not granted its previous applications. [...]

DRC ZIMBABWE Mining 15/12/2020

3T leader AfriMet plans to break into battery metals

AfriMet, which has pumped half a million dollars into lithium developer Tantalex Resources in the DRC, is keen to get involved in other countries rich in the metal, with Zimbabwe top of the list. The move is a way of diversifying into battery metals, which are in great demand for electronics, a sector AfriMet already serves as a "3T" trader. [...]

AFRICA FRANCE Mining 07/12/2020

Eric Buisson, France's new conflict minerals due diligence compliance officer

France's Ministry for Ecological Transition has set up a unit to monitor compliance with the new EU conflict minerals regulation that will come into effect on 1 January 2021. [...]

Zoé Kabila, governor of the Congolese province of Tanganyika. © Gouvernement du Tanganyika

DRC Mining 13/11/2020

Zoé Kabila aspires to transform Tanganyika into the new Haut-Katanga

Zoé Kabila, the brother of the ex-Congolese president, has grand ambitions for his term as governor of Tanganyika: to create the conditions for his province to become a DRC mining and industrial hub and thereby establish the family stronghold as a leading commercial player in the country. [...]

DRC Business Mining 21/09/2020

Gigawatts and metal ores: what Fortescue pitched to Tshisekedi

On a visit to Kinshasa on 16 September, the Australian metals giant Fortescue put forward an ambitious plan to develop electrical power and mining projects. [...]

ALGERIA Business 19/03/2020

Cieptal to cater for Sonatrach laboratory in Hassi Messaoud

Catering company Cieptal, a subsidiary of France's Catering International & [...]

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Arcadia Minerals starts tantalum exploration in Raubex's shadow

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Kagame backs embattled Touadéra on all fronts

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Accused of links to conflict minerals, African Gold Refinery fires broadside at EU

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3T leader AfriMet plans to break into battery metals

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Uganda's Dott Services snaps up mining permits with its road construction contracts

US plays catch-up with EU on conflict minerals to turn page on Trump era

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Chamber of mines, civil society anxious as generals take charge of two eastern provinces

Chrystold Chetty, chairman of the Seychelles Revenue Commission, has his work set out for him

Producers and foreign buyers clash over mineral traceability costs

Kagame backs embattled Touadéra on all fronts

South Kivu elite battle for share of Luhihi gold rush

Accused of links to conflict minerals, African Gold Refinery fires broadside at EU

Guggenheim clan want greater share of country's mines

3T leader AfriMet plans to break into battery metals

Eric Buisson, France's new conflict minerals due diligence compliance officer

Zoé Kabila aspires to transform Tanganyika into the new Haut-Katanga

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