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Where exploration money is landing: Cote d'Ivoire's rise, the two great copper hunting grounds, uranium, lithium and rare earths, and a drilling market posting record revenue.
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Where exploration money is landing: Cote d'Ivoire's rise, the two great copper hunting grounds, uranium, lithium and rare earths, and a drilling market posting record revenue.
Platreef's first concentrate, Kumba's R11.2 billion Sishen overhaul, Northam's twin PGM programmes and a rare new Witwatersrand gold mine. The projects worth watching, and the rail,…
Three billion-dollar copper builds are running in Zambia at once, Simandou shipped first ore, and gold above 4,100 dollars is pushing West African projects to construction.…
De Beers paused South Africa's biggest diamond mine in July 2026 with 4,400 jobs in the balance. The numbers behind the decision, the lab-grown collapse that…
Glencore absorbed Xstrata in 2013 in mining's biggest ever deal. Where every major asset ended up, from mothballed South African ferrochrome smelters to the copper stakes…
A 46 percent margin business built on ore quality, one railway and an R11.2 billion beneficiation bet. Kumba's operations, the UHDMS project and what Simandou means…
From 3,900 threatened jobs to R9.3 billion in half-year profit in two years. What survived Implats' capital cuts, what got deferred, and what the survivor list…
The world's largest coal-to-liquids plant just posted its best output in five years while its feedstock clock ticks. How Secunda works, the destoning fix, the gas…
As the world's second largest continent and one with large quantities of mineral endowments, Africa is home to a large proportion of the world's mined minerals.
Feasibility study demonstrates the economic viability of the project with enough certainty to allow a decision to develop a mine or not
The DRC is one of the most mineral-rich countries in the world. Yet about 80% of its projects are still in exploration or development. Here's the…