Category: Lithium
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🇬🇭 Ewoyaa Lithium: Ghana’s First Lithium Mine Faces a Major Ownership Shift as Huayou Moves to Consolidate Control
Ghana’s Ewoyaa lithium project faces a major ownership transition as Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt moves to consolidate control of the country’s emerging first lithium mine, raising critical questions about state participation, local value addition, processing, environmental oversight and who ultimately captures the economic value of Ghana’s lithium resources.
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🇺🇬 How to Own a Gold Mine in Uganda: A Practical Guide for African Investors
Uganda is attracting growing interest from African and international mining investors. Here is a practical guide to the legal route for establishing, acquiring or investing in a gold-mining operation in Uganda.
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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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🇳🇬 🇺🇸 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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Liberia’s Lithium Moment: New Survey, Global Interest, and the Test of Resource Sovereignty
Liberia is moving closer to the center of Africa’s critical-minerals conversation. A new China-funded national geological survey, described as the country’s most comprehensive mineral mapping effort in more than 50 years, has renewed attention on lithium, cobalt, uranium, manganese, neodymium, nickel, zinc, silver, and other strategic minerals. For a country historically known for iron ore,…