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Mining in Africa
No landmass on earth carries a richer mineral endowment than Africa. South African platinum and gold, the copper and cobalt belt that runs from the Zambian fields into the Democratic Republic of Congo, West African gold and bauxite, North African phosphates and the diamond grounds of Botswana and Namibia all sit within a single market. AMIQ keeps watch over more than 2,200 mining projects spread across the continent, recording which ones are advancing, the phase each has reached, and the people who hold the budget. For a supplier or contractor weighing where to put effort next, that single picture is worth more than any tender notice.
Live mining projects tracked across Africa
What Africa mines, and where
No single metal sums up African mining. Gold, copper, cobalt, the platinum group, diamonds, phosphates and iron ore each anchor their own districts, their own operators and their own buying cycles. For a supplier, that breadth means the order book never rests on one commodity or one country alone.
The metal that built modern African mining. South Africa's Witwatersrand still runs deep, while Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso and Tanzania pour out the bulk of the continent's newer ounces.
The Central African copperbelt, reaching from Zambia into the Democratic Republic of Congo, supplies most of the world's cobalt alongside its copper, placing the region at the heart of the battery-metal story.
The South African and Zimbabwean Bushveld holds by far the largest platinum-group reserves on the planet, feeding catalytic-converter and hydrogen demand from a handful of deep, long-life operations.
Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Angola sit among the world's premier diamond sources, working both deep kimberlite pipes and the marine and alluvial gravels along the south-western coast.
North Africa carries an outsized share of global phosphate rock, with Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria turning vast deposits into the fertiliser feedstock the rest of the world depends on.
High-grade iron ore drives bulk export tonnage from South Africa's Northern Cape and the new West African deposits of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, each tied to its own rail and port build-out.
Reach the right project anywhere on the continent
Subscribe and the entire continental field opens to you: each tracked project comes with its verified mine owner, its engineer and its EPC contact. That lets a supplier introduce itself while the brief is still loose and influence can still be earned, long before a preferred-bidder list is drawn up and the door quietly shuts.
Why suppliers run their Africa pipeline through AMIQ
Every operating mine on the continent draws on a long chain of service providers, and the firms that consistently win are the ones already in the conversation before a brief is locked down. Whether you sell drilling, engineering, laboratory work, fabricated plant, equipment or logistics, the starting question is always the same: which sites are moving, and whose signature releases the money. Answering that, country by country and right across Africa, is the work we do.
See the opening first. Filter by country, commodity and stage to surface continental projects whose scope is still being decided, well ahead of any public tender going out.
Talk to whoever signs off. Each entry carries the verified owner, lead engineer, EPC and incumbent suppliers, kept current by our research team, so your pitch lands with the person who can actually award the contract.
Hear about it instantly. An alert reaches you the moment a fresh project enters the platform or a tracked one advances a phase, anywhere on the continent, so no live opportunity passes you by.
Genuinely continental reach. The coverage spans southern, central, eastern, western and northern Africa together, so a single subscription puts every producing region on one screen instead of scattered across separate sources.
Built for the people mines buy from. Exploration crews, drillers, consulting engineers, assay laboratories, plant fabricators, equipment dealers and freight operators all turn to AMIQ when they line up the next job.
Backed by two decades of records. Twenty-two years of tracked projects and more than 10,000 verified contacts let you weigh one country against another and judge where your effort is best spent.
One continent, five mining regions, one market
African mining is best read as a set of distinct regional markets rather than one undifferentiated whole. The far south is the long-established heartland, built on deep gold, platinum and chrome and reaching down through the diamond fields of Botswana and Namibia. The central belt turns on copper and cobalt. The east is a fast-moving gold and gemstone frontier. The west has become the continent's busiest new gold and bauxite ground. And the north supplies the bulk of its phosphate. Read together as a single supply opportunity, that spread is what makes the continent so deep for the firms that service the industry. Start with the largest single market in Mining in South Africa, then follow the freshest activity through new mining projects in Africa.
The full continental record runs to more than 2,200 mining projects, all filed in one searchable index, and the active tallies show where effort is best spent today. The far south is busiest by a wide margin, carrying 555 live projects. West Africa comes next with 236, then a long tail running through 94 in the east, 68 in the central belt and 30 across the north. Behind each of those entries, our research desk pins down the verified owner, the engineer and the procurement decision-maker. Reaching those people, and the complete dossier that sits behind every project, is precisely what paid access delivers.
Five mining regions, each with its own pipeline
The continent breaks naturally into five mining regions, each led by different commodities and carrying its own depth of live work. Pick the region that fits your trade and step straight into its projects and the contacts behind them.
Southern Africa
The continent's mining heartland and its busiest region, with 555 active projects spanning gold, platinum, chrome, copper, coal and the diamond fields of Botswana and Namibia.
Explore Southern Africa →West Africa
The fastest-growing gold ground anywhere, carrying 236 active projects across Ghana, Mali and Burkina Faso, alongside bauxite and a new wave of iron-ore development.
Explore West Africa →East Africa
A gold, gemstone and graphite frontier with 94 active projects, taking in Tanzanian gold, Kenyan and Ugandan exploration and the mineral sands of Madagascar.
Explore East Africa →Central Africa
Home of the copper and cobalt belt, with 68 active projects led by the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbours, the engine room of the battery-metal supply chain.
Explore Central Africa →North Africa
The phosphate, gold and base-metal region holding 30 active projects across Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia, anchored by some of the largest fertiliser feedstock deposits on earth.
Explore North Africa →Explore mining across the region
Keep reading on the operators, supply chains and live projects shaping mining right across the African continent.
Mining in Africa: common questions
How many mining projects does AMIQ track across Africa?
The continental record holds more than 2,200 mining projects. Looking only at the ones that are live, the southern region dominates at 555, the west sits second at 236, the east accounts for a further 94, the central belt 68 and the north 30. That breakdown tells a supplier where the live work is densest before committing any effort.
Which African countries lead the continent's mining?
South Africa remains the single largest market, on the strength of its gold, platinum and chrome. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia anchor copper and cobalt, Ghana and Mali drive West African gold, Botswana and Namibia lead in diamonds, and Morocco dominates phosphate, so leadership shifts depending on the commodity in question.
What does Africa mine?
Almost everything of consequence. Gold runs from the deep south through the new West African fields, copper and cobalt pour out of the central belt, the platinum group concentrates in the Bushveld, diamonds come from the south-west, phosphate from the north and iron ore from both the far south and the emerging West African deposits, with coal, manganese, bauxite and a long list of others alongside.
How do suppliers reach mining projects across Africa?
The firms that win are the ones already talking before a brief is set. Our records flag which schemes are moving in each region and the stage each has reached, then hand over the checked owner, engineer and buying contacts. A supplier can then approach the right site at exactly the right moment, instead of waiting for a notice to appear in public.
How is African mining organised by region?
The continent splits into five mining regions. Southern Africa is the established heartland, Central Africa holds the copper and cobalt belt, West Africa is the busiest new gold ground, East Africa is a rising gold and gemstone frontier, and North Africa supplies most of the phosphate. Each region carries its own commodities, operators and project pipeline.
What does a subscription to Africa Mining IQ give you?
Paid access opens the full file on every active scheme on the continent: the checked owner, the lead engineer and the buyers, the substance of the work, and a notification the moment something enters the platform or steps up a stage. Drawing on 22 years of records and well over 10,000 verified contacts, that is the depth a subscription puts in your hands.
