Category: Minerals
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🇿🇲 Zambian Women in Mining Push for Fairer Markets and Greater Economic Power
LUSAKA, Zambia — Women in Zambia’s extractive sector are increasingly demonstrating how collective action, technical knowledge and access to markets can transform small-scale mining enterprises and strengthen communities. Among those leading this movement is Aggie, a representative of the Massa Women in Mining Industrial Minerals Cooperative, a women-led enterprise working in Zambia’s mineral sector. Her…
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A Poisoned River: How Bea Mountain’s Repeated Chemical Spills Are Uprooting Liberian Villages
An investigation reveals years of toxic leaks from Liberia’s largest gold miner, forcing communities to flee and prompting calls for urgent reform. Dateline: Monrovia, Liberia – February 1, 2026 — Introduction For generations, the rivers and creeks of Grand Cape Mount County have been the lifeblood of rural Liberian communities. Today, those same waterways are…
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🇸🇦 The Future Minerals Forum 2026 Sets Record as Global Mining Leaders Converge to Drive Real Action
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is gearing up for what promises to be the most impactful edition yet of the Future Minerals Forum (FMF), with over 20,000 participants already registered — marking a record-breaking turnout in the event’s history. This milestone underscores the growing global interest in advancing dialogue around critical minerals into concrete, actionable…
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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,…
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🇬🇭 Ghana to reform state gold purchase programme in 2026
Ghana will reform its domestic state gold purchase programme (DGPP) in 2026 in order to improve the efficiency of the gold mining sector. This was stated in a press release issued by the Bank of Ghana on 25 December. 🔸The DGPP, under which the Bank of Ghana purchases gold, is described as “a policy tool…
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Bitcoin is falling while Gold is hitting record highs…
Updated U.S. inflation data for July, August, and September (PCE) is expected to be released today, which could change the situation for BTC. ➠ Current picture:▪️ BTC: -30% from ATH.▪️ Gold and Silver: new all-time highs.▪️ S&P 500 and Nasdaq: just a step away from ATH. ➠ Defensive assets are overheated▪️ Gold is trading +25%…
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🇱🇷 Liberia: ArcelorMittal Remains Liberia’s Largest Revenue Contributor Nearly Two Decades Running
New financial disclosures highlight ArcelorMittal Liberia’s position as the country’s largest and most consistent revenue contributor, with payments to the Government of Liberia now exceeding nearly half a million since the company began operations nearly two decades ago. According to data read by this paper this payment has repeatedly been made through royalties, taxes, and…
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🇱🇷 How Much Revenue Liberia Has Lost Under AML’s Monopoly
Liberia may finally be in a position to reclaim what policy analysts are calling “the years that the locusts have eaten,” as new economic data reveals the staggering scale of revenue the country has lost under ArcelorMittal Liberia’s near-exclusive control of the Yekepa–Buchanan railway. With President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. having returned the company’s Third…
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🇦🇴 Diamond mining in Angola amounted to 10.7 million carats from January to September of the current year, with a target of 14.8 million carats for 2025.
The African country mined a record 14 million carats in 2024, making it one of the top three largest diamond producers, second only to Russia and Botswana. The Secretary of State for Mineral Resources, Jânio Correia Victor, specified that diamond production in Angola in the first half of 2025 exceeded the same period last year…