Tag: Critical Minerals
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🇬🇭 World Bank Targets Fivefold Increase in Critical Minerals Financing as Ghana Emerges in Global Supply-Chain Strategy
For Ghana, the opportunity is potentially significant—but the strategic objective should extend beyond digging minerals out of the ground. The central question for the next five years may be whether Africa can use the new wave of critical-minerals investment to build industries around its resources, rather than simply supplying the resources to industries elsewhere.
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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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🇿🇲 Zambia Draws a Line: $1.5 Billion U.S. Health Deal Stripped of Data and Minerals Clauses
Zambia has signed a five-year, $1.5 billion U.S. health financing agreement after negotiating the removal of controversial biological-specimen and patient-data provisions and separating health cooperation from critical-minerals negotiations.
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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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🇨🇩🇨🇳 DR Congo’s Copper Market Shifts as U.S. Imports Rise and China’s Share Changes
Record U.S. copper imports from the Democratic Republic of Congo are changing the country’s export mix as China remains a major buyer but its share declines.
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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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🇿🇲🇨🇳 Zambia Maps Its Mineral Future as China Seeks Deeper Critical-Minerals Cooperation
Zambia’s nationwide geological mapping programme is 93.6% complete as officials and Chinese representatives discuss opportunities in copper and other critical minerals.
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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…