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Canada's Orezone supplied 7% of Burkina Faso's gold output in 2023 from the Bomboré mine. This year, the firm plans to produce between 110,000 and 125,000...
Zimbabwe is Africa's top producer of lithium. Despite falling lithium prices, the country keeps attracting foreign investments in its lithium sector. On...
EMR Capital recently sold its 80% stake in the Lubambe copper mine. With Zambia looking to increase its copper production, new owner JCHX plans to...
Canada's Orezone operates the Bomboré gold mine in Burkina Faso, which is expected to deliver a maximum of 125,000 ounces in 2024. The company aims to...
Bisie, comprising the Mpama North and Mpama South operations, is the largest tin mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2023, the mine...
According to a 2022 estimate, Mako Gold's Napié project hosts 868,000 ounces of gold in inferred resources. The Australian company has since been active...
Canada's Montage Gold has discovered a large gold deposit in Côte d'Ivoire, capable of producing over 100 tonnes of gold over 16 years. The mine, called...
China's control of the rare earth market has raised concerns in the West, prompting a search for alternative suppliers. According to recent forecasts by...
Kobada, a key project in Mali, is set to increase the country's gold output in the coming years. Initially projected to deliver 1.2 million ounces over 16...
First commissioned in 1924, the Kipushi mine has been on care and maintenance since 1993. Gécamines and Canada's Ivanhoe Mines announced plans to restart...
Burkina Faso is set to have a new active gold mine next year, the Kiaka mine. The project’s owner, West African Resources, recently upscaled its expected...
Morocco's Procaneq, a mining subcontractor for the OCP group, will boost its green investments with a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Last year, Gécamines, the DRC’s public mining company, announced a deal to sell its share of the copper produced at the Tenke Fungurume mine operated by...
The Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Energy of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is pleased to announce the first edition of the International Extractive and...
Namibia, Africa’s top uranium producer, hosts Paladin's Langer Heinrich uranium mine. The latter has resumed production last March. On June 28, Paladin...
The loan will finance the third phase of the copper complex's expansion. This phase should increase the facility’s production capacity to over 600,000...
French company Alteo expects its bauxite mine project in Guinea to create around 800 direct jobs. These include positions for qualified engineers and...
Ivanhoe Mines Limited, the driving force behind this performance, keeps exploring in 2024. The DRC could become the leading supplier of copper, which...
Australia's Aurum Resources is among the recent foreign mining juniors interested in Côte d'Ivoire's gold potential. In just a few months, the company has...
Namibia is the world's third-largest producer and Africa's largest producer of uranium. Spurred by the recent surge in uranium prices, new investors are...
China is one of the main foreign investors active in Africa's mining sector. With a presence in several copper mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Since the beginning of the year, Senegal has applied a reference price for phosphate exports. This floor price is used to calculate the mining royalty...
Africa's top lithium producer, Zimbabwe attracts more and more investors as the long-term outlook for the metal remains positive. Cluff Africa, a British...
Central bank gold purchases have been a major driving force behind the recent burst in demand for gold worldwide, and subsequently price surge. Gold...
Canada's Asante Gold, which operates the Bibiani and Chirano gold mines in Ghana, has reported a rise in production and revenues from its two mines....
Orano, a French nuclear company, recently announced the resumption of development at the Imouraren uranium deposit in Niger, after the project was offline...
Tristream Capital offers alternative financing solutions to mining companies, in exchange for royalties on production. Its current portfolio includes...
Despite recent tensions between Niger and the US, the development of the Dasa uranium mine in Niger can still count on American support. The future mine’s...
Chemaf has had a 25-year lease on a copper-cobalt permit belonging to Gécamines since 2015. To develop this permit, Chemaf has put itself up for sale in...
Madagascar’s Molo graphite currently produces 17,000 tonnes per year. NextSource Materials, the owner, wants to increase this capacity to 150,000 tonnes a...
Though the world’s top cobalt producer, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) supplies barely 1% of the refined cobalt used worldwide. The Central...
Leo Lithium announced last May the sale of its remaining stake in the Goulamina project in Mali to China's Ganfeng Lithium for $342.7 million. The...
Gabon's raw gold exports have taken a significant hit, falling from 43.9 billion FCFA in 2022 to just 8.5 billion FCFA in 2023, according to data from the...
The Adumbi project hosts over 100 tonnes of gold mineral resources in the DRC. Developing a gold mine on the site would increase Congolese gold exports,...
High battery prices have long impacted electric cars’ final cost, thus impeding their adoption. If the prices of these batteries were to fall, consumer...

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