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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.

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. [...]

DRC Mining 23/07/2021

Much ado over Glencore-owned Shabara mine

As Glencore prepares to reopen the Mutanda copper and cobalt mine, there are major tensions at its neighbouring Shabara mine, where NGOs are defending local diggers who are up against competition from informal Lebanese and Chinese operators. [...]

MADAGASCAR Mining 20/07/2021

NextSource Materials becomes hub for ex-Xstrata alumni

The Canadian junior that has been developing a graphite project in Madagascar for the past decade is fast becoming a landing pad for ex-managers of South African giant Xstrata, all thanks to its new chairman Sir Mick Davis. [...]

BOTSWANA Mining 15/07/2021

Safari businessman and Masisi supporter Sean Sebele poised to invest in mining

Earlier this month, the owner and CEO of Botswana tour operator Inter-Tourism Group (ITG) Sean Sebele, who has a long-established career in the safari and guided tours business in Botswana, founded the company ITG Mining (on 4 July). [...]

GUINEA Mining 05/07/2021

Adonis Pouroulis's go-to exploration consultancy Benzu Minerals takes a bet on cobalt

The mining company often called on for exploration work by companies belonging to businessman Adonis Pouroulis plans to start prospecting for cobalt in central Guinea. [...]

Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi (left) during a meeting with Mike Pompeo, the Trump administration's Secretary of State in Washington, on 3 March 2020. © Ting Shen/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

UNITED STATES DRC CHINA Business Mining 25/06/2021

How Washington pushed Tshisekedi to renegotiate Kabila's China contracts

The president's plans to revise all the contracts the DRC has signed with China were largely inspired by the United States. [...]

SOUTH AFRICA Mining 25/06/2021

Johannesburg gripped by vanadium fever

With vanadium prices constantly breaking new records, miners of this mineral in which South Africa is rich are striving with the blessing of Pretoria to win back a market share that has been lost to China in recent years. [...]

The Morila gold mine, situated in the Sikasso Region of Mali (South). © Nicolas Remene/Le Pictorium

MALI Mining 21/06/2021

Firefinch goes full throttle to redevelop Morila Gold Mine

Australian lithium mining company Firefinch, which has made a high-speed sally into gold mining to take advantage of high gold prices, has called in Portuguese construction company Mota-Engil to help it boost operations at Mali's giant Morila Gold Mine. [...]

AFRICA Mining 16/06/2021

RBC Capital Markets is helping Lifezone to get mining's green revolution under way

Lifezone, a company developing technology to decarbonise the smelting of metals that it is already using at Sedibelo Platinum Mines in South Africa and Kabanga Nickel in Tanzania, has brought in RBC Capital Markets to help get new investors involved in its work. [...]

ZAMBIA Mining 15/06/2021

Uptick in copper exploration followed by Rio Tinto, Anglo American and other majors

The rise in copper prices has lead to a reboot of exploration projects in Zambia from sector giants to juniors looking for a stockmarket listing, overshadowing the country's colossal debt and recent spat with Glencore and Vedanta. [...]

MALAWI Mining 15/06/2021

Sovereign Metals hits new titanium jackpot

The Australian firm hit the jackpot with its discovery of a huge rutile deposit in Malawi. The find was yet another lucky strike for its chairman Ian Middlemas, who also runs the Apollo Group that controls Sovereign. [...]

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. © Wanda/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

ZIMBABWE Mining 11/06/2021

Mnangagwa goes all out for Prospect Resources lithium launch

Harare is ready to pull out all the stops for the Australian firm's launch of production at its Arcadia lithium, success stories involving foreign mining investors being few and far between. [...]

DRC Mining 07/06/2021

Lubumbashi city council persists with controversial toll on copper transports

The bill to introduce a toll for entering Lubumbashi that sparked a public outcry in October has been presented again to transporters, who have decided to fight back. [...]

ANGOLA Oil & gas 04/06/2021

Cobalt Energy finally pays out to ex-shareholders

After years of legal wrangling, the marathon Cobalt International Energy saga is nearing an end. [...]

Nicolas Kagambega will run Burkina Faso's mines and mining geology bureau, Bumigeb. © Minister of energy, mines and quarries

BURKINA FASO Mining 02/06/2021

Industry knowledge wins over politics for top Bumigeb job

It is a mining expert and not a politician that will run Burkina Faso's mines and mining geology bureau, Bumigeb, which handles geological surveys of the country. [...]

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. [...]

WEST AFRICA Mining 26/05/2021

Robert Friedland, Barrick and other mining majors' 'non-core' assets sell like hotcakes

Junior mining companies listed in Canada or Australia are gobbling up West African gold projects identified by global industry leaders. [...]

DRC President Félix Tshisekedi. © Ludovic Marin/POOL/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

DRC Business 26/05/2021

Blair Institute delivers economic policy plan for Tshisekedi's new government

With two years left of his presidential term, Félix Tshisekedi wants to define the shape of the DRC's economic policy through to 2030 and the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change has drafted report to help with the task. [...]

The slag heap of Lubumbashi. © Africa Intelligence

DRC Mining 25/05/2021

Lubumbashi slag heap locals fume over pollution

Residents who live near the lucrative Lubumbashi cobalt slag heap have complained to the governor of Haut-Katanga province about pollution from the fumes coming out of the plant on the site. [...]

French-Iranian arbitration specialist Yas Banifatemi. © Shearman & Sterling/Handout/EPA/MaxPPP

NIGERIA Oil & gas 21/05/2021

Abuja names bigshot oil arbitrator to fight Shell over oil spill Free

Oil dispute expert Yas Banifatemi has been picked as the second member of the ICSID tribunal that will hear Nigeria's dispute with Shell over an oil spill in 1970. [...]

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