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Battery Metals

Lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium and nickel, of which Africa boasts large reserves, are highly sought after for their capacity to store energy as batteries.

DRC Mining 03/12/2021

Big tech cleared but Glencore, ERG and Huayou cited in relation to child labour

A US court has dismissed the class action filed by 13 Congolese nationals against tech giants Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla and Dell for their part in the use of forced child labour in DRC's cobalt mines. [...]

SENEGAL Mining 02/12/2021

Haranga Resources woos stock market in wake of UraMin scandal

Haranga is trying to relist on the Australian stock exchange, banking on investor interest in its West African gold licences and in its Saraya uranium project. Saraya once belonged to UraMin, the company at the heart of a scandal involving Areva. [...]

TANZANIA Mining 30/11/2021

Local billionaire Rostam Aziz's firm is new majority stakeholder in Tancoal

After many months of fruitless searching, the Australian firm Intra Energy Corporation has finally found a buyer for its majority stake in Tanzania's largest coal mine: a firm owned by Rostam Aziz, a local billionaire and former treasurer of the country's ruling party. [...]

DRC MOROCCO Business 24/11/2021

Ryad Mezzour on royal mission to Tshisekedi's business forum

On 24 November, Morocco's industry minister Ryad Mezzour is expected to make his first trip to Africa since his appointment last month, when he replaced Moulay Hafid Elalamy. Mezzour will attend the DRC Africa Business Forum instead of Mohammed VI who had been invited by President Felix Tshisekedi. [...]

ANGOLA Mining 16/11/2021

Up for reelection, Lourenço makes diamond industry successes shine

The Angola International Diamond Conference will soon take place in the diamond hub of Saurimo to highlight the progress made in the industry since João Lourenço became president. [...]

DRC Mining 12/11/2021

Energy 24 expands into MIBA's nickel and chrome deposits

Previously operating in the health sector, the company Energy 24 has decided to explore the nickel and chrome concessions of the state-owned company MIBA in Kasai. [...]

BOTSWANA Mining 12/11/2021

Canadians dig into Botswana's copper market

In a historic year for growth in the copper sector, the Matsitama project, which has been in receivership since 2015, has found a new buyer: the Canadian Eastport Ventures. [...]

Canadian owner of Eastport Ventures, Rick Bonner. © Eastport Ventures

BURUNDI Mining 09/11/2021

Will US stake help Rainbow Rare Earths get its mine reopened?

Rainbow Rare Earths is highlighting the indirect presence of the US government in its capital, as Burundi seeks to position itself as an alternative to China for the supply of rare earths to Western countries, primarily the United States. [...]

Activity at the Gakara mine is still suspended. © Rainbow Rare Earths

BOTSWANA Mining 05/11/2021

Tobedzani Kuriwa and Galane Gold execs launch new mining venture

Tobedzani Kuriwa, a business partner of tycoon Atang Makgekgenene, has created a new mining company in partnership with senior executives at the Mupane gold mine operated by Canada's Galane Gold. [...]

TANZANIA Mining 04/11/2021

Marvel Gold reduces exposure to graphite despite record demand and Suluhu Hassan's promises

As the demand for electric batteries increases, so does the demand for graphite. Yet Marvel Gold, formerly Graphex, is taking one more step toward reducing their exposure in Chilolo. The Magufuli era left a bad taste in international juniors' mouths and Samia Suluhu Hassan has not convinced them things have changed. [...]

DRC Mining 03/11/2021

Sceplum partners Gécamines, Trafigura and Pact on small-scale cobalt mining

Run by DRC mining experts and financed by businessman Gad Cohen, Sceplum is the fourth partner on the state-run project to formalise artisanal cobalt mining in the country. [...]

BOTSWANA Mining 02/11/2021

Botswana tycoon Atang Makgekgenene takes a shine to BK11 diamonds

Mining magnate Atang Makgekgenene has entered the diamond business in his native country with a bang by buying rights to the BK11 mine and licences for other mines nearby at a reduced rate. [...]

DRC ZAMBIA Mining 01/11/2021

Copper-cobalt: Chinese CNMC struggling in Zambia but progressing in DRC

The Chinese mining giant has suffered several setbacks at its Zambian mines, but is currently in a test phase in DRC, with a view to increasing its capacities there. [...]

DRC Mining 28/10/2021

Battle to take over Kipoi copper operator Tiger Resources settled at last

An Australian court has dismissed the case made by Mauritian firm Kipoi Holdings against Chinese firm Yingkou Yangzhou's proposed takeover of Tiger Resources, the bankrupt operator of the Katanga copper mine Kipoi. [...]

BOTSWANA Mining 22/10/2021

South African magnate Tim Tebeila pitches up in mining hub of Francistown

On 11 October, the South African magnate Tim Tebeilla registered Sekoko Resources in Botswana, possibly with an eye on the nickel mines in Francistown in the east of the country. [...]

DRC Mining 21/10/2021

Zealous mining investor Klaus Eckhof back in Bisié tin zone

With the prospects for tin looking rosy over the next few years, Klaus Eckhof, a keen investor in the DRC's mining sector, is hoping to develop a tin project next to Alphamin's very high-grade Bisié deposit. [...]

IVORY COAST Business Ports and airports 19/10/2021

Audit rocks San Pedro, centrepiece of Ouattara's port strategy

Abidjan has received the financial and managerial audit it commissioned on the port of San Pedro. The bombshell report could harm the facility's director general, Hilaire Lamizana. [...]

San Pedro port, Ivory Coast. © Thierry Gouegnon/Reuters

AFRICA SIERRA LEONE Mining Investments funds 14/10/2021

Canadian and Icelandic funds continue to target African bauxite

GreenBank Capital and JV Capital's planned takeover of Sierra Leone's Port Loko bauxite project via Ubique Minerals may have fallen through, but they are still looking for high-potential deposits in the country and further afield on the African continent. [...]

IVORY COAST Mining 14/10/2021

Abidjan gears up for mining policy overhaul

Firms hoping to help the government of Ivory Coast to draw up its five-year strategic plan for the mining sector put in their bids in early October. [...]

NETHERLANDS BOTSWANA Mining Business 13/10/2021

Dutch offshore king Gregory Elias bags Mowana copper mine

The debt-ridden Mowana copper mine, in liquidation since 2018, has found a buyer in the person of Gregory Elias, a Dutch wealth manager based on the Caribbean island of Curaçao. [...]

Dutch asset manager Gregory Elias. © Patrick van Katwijk/Netherlands Out/Point de Vue Out/MaxPPP

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Marvel Gold reduces exposure to graphite despite record demand and Suluhu Hassan's promises

Sceplum partners Gécamines, Trafigura and Pact on small-scale cobalt mining

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South African magnate Tim Tebeila pitches up in mining hub of Francistown

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