Tag: Mineral Processing
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🇬🇭 🇷🇺 Ghana and Russia: Could a Nuclear Power Partnership Transform Ghana’s Industrial Future?
Ghana has opened discussions with Russia’s Rosatom over the country’s first nuclear power station, as President John Dramani Mahama seeks reliable electricity to support industrialisation and domestic mineral processing. With Russia simultaneously expanding its role in Ghana’s bauxite industry, the emerging partnership could reshape Ghana’s energy and economic future—but it also raises difficult questions about…
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🇨🇳 How Vibrating Placer Gold Screens Can Transform Small-Scale Mining
A vibrating placer gold screening and gravity-recovery system can help small-scale miners process more alluvial material, reduce manual labor, improve screening efficiency and concentrate heavy minerals such as gold. Here’s how the technology can fit into a modern African mining operation.
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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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🇬🇭 Ghana Rewrites the Rules of Gold: State Participation, Local Refining and a New Mining Value Chain
Ghana is fundamentally reshaping its gold industry. GoldBod’s 30% large-scale mining offtake, new XRF assay regime, mandatory local refining and gold-reserve strategy are placing the state deeper inside the mineral value chain while new mining legislation could further expand domestic processing and state participation.
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🇹🇿 Minexpo Tanzania 2026 to Bring Global Mining Technology and Heavy Machinery to Dar es Salaam
Minexpo Tanzania 2026 will bring mining companies, technology providers, equipment manufacturers and investors from more than 20 countries to Dar es Salaam from 28–30 October, showcasing the machinery and innovations shaping Africa’s mining future.
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Mining Question: Why Isn’t More Iron Ore Being Processed at Home?
Liberia’s iron-ore industry raises a fundamental question about the country’s economic future: should Liberia remain primarily a mineral exporter, or use its resources to build domestic processing, steel manufacturing and broader industrial capacity?
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Opens First Gold Refinery in Push for Economic Independence
Burkina Faso has opened its first national gold refinery in Ouagadougou, marking a major step in its effort to process more of its mineral wealth domestically. RAFFINOR-BF will initially refine 164 tonnes of gold annually, with plans to reach 515 tonnes, as the country seeks greater control over its gold value chain and broader economic…
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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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🇬🇭 Ghana Moves to End Raw Gold Exports as New Refining Rules Take Effect
By Panafrican.email News Desk Ghana, Africa’s leading gold-producing country, has tightened controls on gold exports as the government moves to retain more value from the country’s mineral wealth through domestic processing. Under a new directive from the Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod), unrefined gold doré can no longer be approved for export under the affected trading…