Tag: mining
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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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🇷🇺 Putin Courts Africa With Debt Message as Russia Expands Its Influence Across the Continent
At the 2026 Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, Vladimir Putin positioned Russia as an alternative partner to the West, accusing Western countries of using debt and economic pressure to constrain African development. But beneath the diplomatic language lies a more complicated question: is Africa gaining strategic leverage from its relationships with Russia and other global powers—or…
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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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🇱🇷 Natural Rough Corundum: The Ruby-Sapphire Mineral Behind the 68.70-Carat Specimen
Natural rough corundum is one of the world’s most important gemstone minerals, forming ruby, sapphire and a spectrum of fancy sapphire colors. Explore its properties, current market value, claimed Kashmir origin, and documented occurrences across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and other parts of West Africa.
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THE PEACE DIAMOND: HOW A 709-CARAT STONE FROM SIERRA LEONE BECAME A SYMBOL OF HOPE
A viral TikTok revisits Sierra Leone’s famous Peace Diamond. The underlying story is real, but the $50 million valuation and claims that the village received nothing require important context.
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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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🇨🇩 M23’s Shadow Over Eastern Congo: How Fear Becomes a Tool of Control
A disturbing image from territory described as being under AFC-M23 control raises a larger question: why does armed violence against civilians become a tool of territorial control in eastern Congo? Documented investigations reveal patterns of killings, detention, forced recruitment and intimidation—and a conflict where fear itself has become a weapon.
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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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🇬🇭 🇲🇱 🇧🇫 Ghana’s $20 Billion Gold Boom: Why Accra Is Pulling Ahead of Mali and Burkina Faso
Ghana’s gold industry is entering a new era. With nearly six million ounces produced in 2025 and gold export earnings reaching about $20.2 billion, Accra is using GoldBod to tighten control over the gold trade, formalise artisanal mining and retain more mineral wealth inside the country. Ghana’s strategy now places it in direct comparison with…