At an open-cast mine, Abdullahi Ibrahim Danjija carefully chisels away at a hunk of whitish rock before stuffing a sack with ...

Artisanal lithium mining in Nigeria attracts workers seeking fortune, despite illegal activity and limited foreign investment ...

Afreximbank: The last decade's minerals boom had the potential to be a pivotal moment for Africa. Instead, it has been a ...

In particular, cobalt, lithium and nickel are crucial for electric ... to shift the balance – effectively, to improve African mining’s productivity by gearing competitiveness.

KoBold Metals, the mining company backed by a coalition of billionaires including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, is expanding its search for lithium and nickel to Namibia.

The theme of the February 2025 Mining Indaba, Futureproofing Mining Today, underscores the urgency of aligning policy, ...

The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

Now, the time has come to shift this paradigm and use our resources to drive industrialisation, create jobs, and enhance ...

A natural resource governance expert has cautioned that any attempt to renegotiate Ghana’s lithium agreement or replace ...

In addition, Mali, with the start of the Goulamina lithium project in 2024, will be a key player in Africa. Global lithium ... impact on the lithium mining industry, leading to production cuts ...

By: Mukwandi Chibesakunda If there is one industry that can catalyse a fulsome transformation of African nations’ economies, it is mining. This has been said before, and applied too, in the context of ...