Category: Minerals
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🍁 Mountain Province Gives Up 49% Gahcho Kué Stake as Diamond-Market Pressure Deepens
Mountain Province Diamonds is transferring its 49% stake in Canada’s Gahcho Kué diamond mine to De Beers as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating mine-related liabilities, stabilizing its finances and securing new funding amid prolonged weakness in natural-diamond prices.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Opens First Gold Refinery in Push for Economic Independence
Burkina Faso has opened its first national gold refinery in Ouagadougou, marking a major step in its effort to process more of its mineral wealth domestically. RAFFINOR-BF will initially refine 164 tonnes of gold annually, with plans to reach 515 tonnes, as the country seeks greater control over its gold value chain and broader economic…
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🇩🇰 The Ambassador: A Controversial Journey Into Africa’s Diamond Trade
The Ambassador takes viewers into the Central African Republic’s diamond trade through Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger’s unconventional undercover investigation. Although the film is not set in the DRC, its questions about mineral access, foreign investment, diplomacy and African resource value chains remain relevant to today’s Congo mining debate.
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.
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🇨🇩 KoBold Metals uses AI to search for critical minerals in Congo
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in Africa, African Business, Bauxite, Geopolitics, Gold, Investment, Iron Ore, Lithium, Minerals, MiningKoBold Metals is using artificial intelligence, geological data, satellite imagery and thousands of soil samples to search for lithium and other critical minerals around Manono in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The project highlights a new phase of African mineral exploration — where AI and geological intelligence are becoming as strategically important as the resources…
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🇬🇭 13 Suspected Illegal Miners Arrested in Osino as NAIMOS Intensifies Galamsey Crackdown
NAIMOS has arrested 13 suspected illegal miners at Osino in Ghana’s Eastern Region and destroyed mining equipment found at the site, in another operation targeting the persistent return of galamsey activities.
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🇳🇬 🇺🇸 US Mining Funds Turn Their Attention to Nigeria as Abuja and Washington Advance Critical Minerals Deal
Nigeria is attracting growing U.S. mining interest as Abuja and Washington advance a proposed critical-minerals cooperation agreement. The initiative could open new investment in lithium and other strategic minerals while raising questions about processing, local value addition and Nigeria’s role in global mineral supply chains.
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🇱🇷 Putu Iron Ore Project Moves Back Toward AMR as Severstal Reverses Position
Liberia’s Putu Iron Ore Project moves back toward AMR after Severstal says its binding offer is superior to Planet One’s proposal, reopening the path to development in Grand Gedeh.
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🇯🇲 Ghana–Jamaica Trade Push Revives Bauxite Link and Opens New Atlantic Commercial Corridor
Accra/Kingston — Ghana and Jamaica are moving to turn decades of Pan-African solidarity into a more concrete economic partnership, with bauxite and aluminium, shipping, ports, investment, health, aviation and agriculture emerging as key areas of cooperation. The renewed relationship gained momentum in 2026 following the resumption of the Ghana–Jamaica Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC)…
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🇬🇭 Ghana Moves to End Raw Gold Exports as New Refining Rules Take Effect
By Panafrican.email News Desk Ghana, Africa’s leading gold-producing country, has tightened controls on gold exports as the government moves to retain more value from the country’s mineral wealth through domestic processing. Under a new directive from the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), unrefined gold doré can no longer be approved for export under the affected trading…