Tag: African Mining
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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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🇱🇷 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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🇿🇲 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…