Tag: Critical Minerals
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🇳🇦 Paladin’s Namibia Uranium Mine Faces Maintenance Disruption as Sales Prices Rise
Paladin Energy reports lower September-quarter uranium production at Namibia’s Langer Heinrich mine, while realised sales prices increase to $79.40 per pound.
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🇵🇪 Pecoy Copper Secures C$49.8 Million Strategic Financing Led by Hudbay Minerals
Pecoy Copper has secured commitments for C$49.8 million from Hudbay Minerals and another strategic investor to advance drilling, resource expansion and technical studies at its copper-gold project in southern Peru.
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🇹🇳 US Government Backs Push to Advance Tunisia’s Gasaat Phosphate Project
US government-backed funding is supporting a two-year programme led by CrossBoundary to connect PhosCo’s Gasaat phosphate project in Tunisia with US investors, commercial partners and technical expertise. The initiative targets up to $100 million in private investment, but the $1.5 million grant is not direct mine financing and no investment or offtake agreement has yet…
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s Mining Future: Why Climate Action and Economic Growth Must Move Together
South Africa’s mining industry is confronting a critical challenge: reducing emissions and strengthening climate resilience while attracting the investment needed to grow the sector, protect jobs and support economic development. At the Minerals Council South Africa’s inaugural Climate Change Day of Learning, industry leaders argued that climate ambition and economic growth must reinforce one another.
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🇺🇸 A2Gold Sells Nevada Gold Project as Miner Sharpens Focus on Core Assets
A2Gold has agreed to sell its Bolo Gold Project in Nevada to Super Gold Mining for C$1.5 million in shares, while retaining exposure to future exploration success through as much as C$2.8 million in contingent payments. The deal reflects a broader strategy of concentrating capital and technical resources on A2Gold’s core Eastside and Taylor projects.
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🇦🇺Why Australian Mining Companies Are Looking to Guinea as Simandou Opens a New African Mining Era
Guinea is entering a new era of mining as Simandou begins exporting iron ore, bauxite production reaches record levels and international investors target gold, iron ore and mineral-processing opportunities. Australian-listed mining companies are increasingly appearing in Guinea’s expanding resource economy—but the bigger question is whether the country can turn mineral wealth and new infrastructure into…
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🇨🇦 Polish Investor Virtus Group Establishes Canadian Base to Recover Metals from Mine Dumps
Warsaw-listed Virtus Group has established operations in British Columbia to pursue recovery of base metals from post-mining and armament waste, with plans to build a project portfolio and potentially list on the TSX-V. The initiative remains unverified and at an early stage.
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🇯🇵 The Console May Disappear — But the Minerals Behind Computing Are Only Becoming More Important
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of PlayStation, believes AI, cloud computing and network technology could eventually make dedicated gaming consoles unnecessary. But if computing leaves the console and moves into the cloud, the demand for minerals does not disappear—it moves upstream into servers, semiconductors, batteries, power systems and telecommunications infrastructure. For Africa, that could make critical…
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When AI Goes Off Script: Why Africa Must Build the Infrastructure and Governance Behind the Intelligence Revolution
OpenAI’s disclosure of six AI misalignment incidents raises a larger question for Africa: who will control the infrastructure behind the continent’s artificial intelligence future? From mining technology and electricity to data centers, fiber networks and AI governance, Africa’s next industrial opportunity may lie in connecting its natural resources to computational power.
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🇬🇭 AMPF – Mining in Motion 2026: Where Africa’s Mineral Future Moves From Dialogue to Action
AMPF – Mining in Motion 2026 brings African government leaders, mining executives, investors, development finance institutions and industry innovators together in Accra from October 19–21 to explore investment, partnerships and the future of Africa’s mineral economy.