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Battery Metals

Lithium, cobalt, graphite, vanadium and nickel, of which Africa boasts large reserves, are highly sought after for their capacity to store energy as batteries.

Guinea
Sama Graphite looking for offtakers

Banking on the electric car market taking off, Canadian firm Sama Graphite Inc, is currently looking for buyers for the [...]

Free access Mining 23.05.2017

DRC
China flexes its muscles in Copperbelt

China is pulling out all the stops, both financial and diplomatic, to win over the Congolese authorities and retain its interests in Katanga’s mines.

Subscribers only Mining 23.05.2017

Mozambique
Nitty gritty on insider trading over Battery Minerals

Penalised for insider trading by the Australian market authority in 2016, Ryan Batros is reported to have traded Battery Minerals stock on behalf of his family.

Subscribers only Mining 23.05.2017

Spotlight | DRC
Glencore and Trafigura caught in Katanga tangle

The elections scheduled in 2017 to determine Congo-K president Joseph Kabila's successor are disrupting the country's economy. The unsettling climate is taking its toll on trading firms Glencore and Trafigura, who dominate copper and cobalt trading in Katanga.

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

DRC
First Cobalt forms dream team to secure foothold in Copperbelt

To make sure its new move into Katanga’s cobalt is a success, First Colbalt has brought in experts both in the area and the metal.

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Madagascar
Phil Hearse bets on Ianapera and Maniry graphite

Australian metallurgist Phil Hearse is planning to list mining junior BlackEarth Minerals on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) by the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Africa
EU wants top spot in offshore mineral exploration

On May 4 and 5, the combined council of ministers [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Zambia
China’s MMG gaining ground in Zambia

In early April, MMG, affiliate of Chinese state-owned firm China [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Tanzania
Asimwe Kabunga fleshes out his mining empire

This April, the Australian entrepreneur of Tanzanian origin Asimwe Kabunga [...]

Subscribers only Mining 09.05.2017

Burkina Faso
The government rivals Niger on uranium

Hoping to increase its revenue by diversifying its gold-focused mining sector, the Burkinabe government was very eager to tell investors [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Africa, Europe, United States
Transatlantic battle for "conflict minerals"

While the European Union (EU) is working on fine-tuning the framework of its new draft regulation on the traceability of [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Mozambique
India’s Reddy clan expands its empire

YS Anil Reddy and YS Sunil Reddy, the two heirs steering the agro-food and pan-African mining conglomerate Reddys Global Industries, [...]

Free access Mining 25.04.2017

Cameroon
New defeat for opponent to financing of Geovic

Economist Eugene Nyambal has been struck another blow in his legal fight against the IMF’s funding of the Geovic mine project in Cameroon.

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Zambia
Christopher Yaluma courts investors in London

On April 25, Christopher Yaluma, Zambia’s mines minister, using the [...]

Subscribers only Mining 25.04.2017

Mali
Who is Nashwan, Bougouni's new lithium operator?

Nashwan Holdings filed requests for lithium exploration permits on Mali’s Djidje and Megnambala projects at the beginning of March. All [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

DRC, Zambia
Australian magnate Tony Sage future Copperbelt king?

Still bound to Australian soil for the moment, Fe, the junior of Frank Timis’ business partner Tony Sage, is prospecting for cobalt in Congo-K and Zambia.

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

DRC
Chinese military join forces with king of Morocco for Pumpi’s copper

Keenly focused on expanding into West African gold (AMI 384) [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

West Africa
Northland helps Keras switch target

British firm Keras Resources solicited the services of Northland Capital [...]

Subscribers only Mining 04.04.2017

Angola
Cobalt multiplie les déboires judiciaires sur ses actifs à Luanda

En arbitrage avec la Sonangol, Cobalt est rattrapé aux Etats-Unis par la SEC et ses actionnaires pour ses activités en Angola.

Subscribers only Énergies 28.03.2017

Zambia
Simon Purkiss out to expand his control of the Munali mine

Head of Consolidated Nickel Mines (CNM), Simon Purkiss, is making [...]

Subscribers only Mining 21.03.2017

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