Category: Mining

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila China’s Zijin Mining will initiate Congo’s first lithium output in June from the disputed Manono deposit and move immediately to exports, the company and state miner Cominiere said, marking a major step in Beijing’s push to secure ...

The mining industry’s most important annual gathering is underway this week in Cape Town, South Africa, where corporate and government elites are convening for what is typically a routine, largely unremarkable business conference. This year is a little different.

By Brian Benza Angola's first major copper mine shipped its first concentrates in January, an official said on Tuesday, the first such exports of the clean energy metal as the oil-rich African country diversifies its mineral resources income. ...

Chinese analysts are responding to Washington’s push to build a China-free critical minerals supply chain with a mix of urgency and confidence. While U.S. policymakers are leaning on allies, financing, and offtake agreements to secure supplies of African copper, cobalt, and other strategic inputs, analysts in China ...

The United States wants to build a new global critical minerals supply chain through a new alliance that aims to stabilize prices and reduce dependence on China.  Africa sits at the center of this shift, particularly the Democratic Republic of the ...

The Washington critical minerals talks have already begun translating into policy. Within hours of the meeting, U.S. lawmakers and allies announced a coordinated set of proposals—from expanded export finance to strategic stockpiles—signaling a faster, more interventionist push to loosen China’s grip on global ...

By Camillus Eboh NNPC chief executive Bayo Ojulari said the company was seeking experienced operators as equity partners to revive its four refineries after years of losses and underperformance. He said an internal review carried ...

The Chinese government has announced wide-ranging plans to build up its reserves of both mineral and agricultural commodities. The move comes as the Trump administration announced its Project Vault, a plan to stockpile supplies of critical minerals, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, ...

The United States is moving to build new stockpiles of critical minerals as part of an effort aimed at countering China’s dominance over supply chains that run through Africa and other parts of the Global South and underpin clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and defense industries. ...

By Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans on Monday to launch a strategic stockpile of critical minerals backed by $10 billion in seed funding from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. "For ...

The United States is going to source 100,000 tonnes of copper from the state-owned mining company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gécamines, ostensibly to help the U.S. diversify its sourcing of the red metal beyond China-controlled supply chains. What's ...

Mozambique's President Daniel Chapo opened a 200,000 metric ton per year graphite processing plant at a Chinese-owned mine on Friday, as the south-east African country boosts output of the battery mineral. Annual global mined graphite production is 1.6 million metric tons, ...