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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.

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ALGERIA Business 19/03/2020

Cieptal to cater for Sonatrach laboratory in Hassi Messaoud

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

ANGOLA AFRIQUE Pétrole 17/03/2020

Le colosse espagnol Repsol va-t-il disparaître du continent ?

Repsol amorce son retrait de l'Angola, ajoutant un pays à la longue liste de ses échecs africains. Seul le Maghreb fait timidement figure d'exception. [...]

DRC Mining 25/02/2020

MD Services promotes mineral wealth to Canadians

The DRC delegation's annual breakfast at the Investing in African [...]

MADAGASCAR Mining 25/02/2020

Child labour: MEPs add their voice to the code revision debate

In their joint motion for a resolution on child labour [...]

TANZANIA Business Road and rail 14/02/2020

Potential new rival to Rwanda rail link project

Central corridor: Burundi or Rwanda? ©Indian Ocean Newsletter/Indigo publications

DRC Mining 11/02/2020

Yves Kabongo one step further towards total copper supply chain

As he continues to make headway at his copper processing unit in Lubumbashi, Yves Kabongo has also founded a trading unit for this highly sought-after battery metal. [...]

AFRICA Mining 28/01/2020

Washington takes about-turn on anti-disclosure stance

After slamming commodity supply chain regulations for their negative impact on American firms in the first months of Donald Trump's [...]

UGANDA Mining 28/01/2020

African Panther in a rush to find financial backer for tin project

African Panther needs to quickly find partner so that it can reassure the Ugandan authorities that it has the cash needed to explore its Kikagati tin project. [...]

TANZANIA Mining 14/01/2020

Jakarta helps Dar es Salaam find and extract its tin resources

One of world's largest tin producers, with 44,500 tonnes extracted [...]

Spotlight EQUATORIAL GUINEA Mining 24/12/2019

Who are the pioneers heading into the country's mines?

Despite being relatively unknown in the mining industry, most of the five firms awarded blocks in Equatorial Guinea's first ever mining licencing round EG Ronda 2019 Mining (AMI 448) have African mining veterans aboard. Specialists - While Oro Sac Corp, [. [...]

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Mining 24/12/2019

Bangui wants to diversify with coltan

While the Central African Republic's main source of mining revenue - diamonds - is still under a partial export ban [...]

DRC Mining 26/11/2019

Afai backs OECD team to analyse copper and cobalt sourcing

To complete their report on copper and cobalt supply chains [...]

RWANDA Mining 12/11/2019

The back-story to Kigali coltan refinery developer Metalysis

Saved from bankruptcy from its acquisition by Power Resources Group, Metalysis is now busy developing a unit to transform coltan into tantalum in Rwanda. [...]

DRC Mining 12/11/2019

PACT tests waters for interest in fight against child labour in mines

The NGO PACT is keen to make enquiries to see [...]

ALGERIA Business 07/11/2019

Bayat clan ousts CIS from Tin Fouyé Tabankort base camp contract

The Multicatering group won the big accommodation, catering and maintenance contract for the Tin Fouyé Tabankort (TFT) base camp on [...]

The Doraleh Multi-Purpose Port in Djibouti.

Focus DJIBOUTI Politics 04/11/2019

Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

Following the funeral of the chairman of the Port of Djibouti authority Saad Omar Guelleh, half-brother of head of state Ismaël Omar Guelleh, Aboubaker Omar Hadi, head of the Djibouti Ports & Free Zones Authority, is steadily becoming the sector's strong man. [...]

Spotlight DRC Mining 29/10/2019

How Moscow plans to carve itself a slice of the country's mines

President Vladimir Putin and several companies used the Russia-Africa summit in Sochi on October 23 to 24 to get the ball rolling on Russia's strategic plan to muscle its way into the DRC's mining industry currently dominated by Chinese groups [. [...]

RWANDA Mining 29/10/2019

Kigali weighs up practicality of coltan refineries

The Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board (RMB) in Kigali [...]

DRC Mining 15/10/2019

Bankers Cobalt ready to bank on lithium to woo investors

Cobalt content analyses of its permits and the falling price of the metal has prompted Bankers Cobalt to consider highlighting its lithium potential ahead of its next capital raise. [...]

DRC Mining 15/10/2019

Coltan Valley pushes for mining industry to adopt tech hubs

With his aptly named Coltan Valley, Eric Mutonji has grand plans to set up tech hubs across the DRC where electronics companies, digital developers and battery manufacturers can source their battery and 3TG metals directly. [...]

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Cieptal to cater for Sonatrach laboratory in Hassi Messaoud

Le colosse espagnol Repsol va-t-il disparaître du continent ?

MD Services promotes mineral wealth to Canadians

Child labour: MEPs add their voice to the code revision debate

Potential new rival to Rwanda rail link project

Yves Kabongo one step further towards total copper supply chain

Washington takes about-turn on anti-disclosure stance

African Panther in a rush to find financial backer for tin project

Jakarta helps Dar es Salaam find and extract its tin resources

Who are the pioneers heading into the country's mines?

Bangui wants to diversify with coltan

Afai backs OECD team to analyse copper and cobalt sourcing

The back-story to Kigali coltan refinery developer Metalysis

PACT tests waters for interest in fight against child labour in mines

Bayat clan ousts CIS from Tin Fouyé Tabankort base camp contract

Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

How Moscow plans to carve itself a slice of the country's mines

Kigali weighs up practicality of coltan refineries

Bankers Cobalt ready to bank on lithium to woo investors

Coltan Valley pushes for mining industry to adopt tech hubs

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Yves Kabongo one step further towards total copper supply chain

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African Panther in a rush to find financial backer for tin project

Jakarta helps Dar es Salaam find and extract its tin resources

Who are the pioneers heading into the country's mines?

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Afai backs OECD team to analyse copper and cobalt sourcing

The back-story to Kigali coltan refinery developer Metalysis

PACT tests waters for interest in fight against child labour in mines

Bayat clan ousts CIS from Tin Fouyé Tabankort base camp contract

Ismael Omar Guelleh loses control of the ports, the country's principal resource

How Moscow plans to carve itself a slice of the country's mines

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