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Copper

Copper plays a key role in the economies of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, and is produced throughout Africa, from Morocco in the north down to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa in the south and Uganda and Eritrea in the east.

Morocco
Investors continue to circle round Jbiel mine

Its copper and cobalt potential is attracting interest.

Subscribers only Mining 31.10.2024

Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco
Washington set to open Development Finance Corporation office in Rabat

Washington's most recently created development agency, the US Development Finance Corporation, which was set up in 2019, is to open a new bureau of representation in Rabat, in December.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Diplomacy 23.10.2024

Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi's brother's dealings in Lualaba province

The Congolese leader's younger brother Christian Tshisekedi heads a company that has been in talks with the Luxembourg-based mining firm ERG to secure a concession in the rich mining province of Lualaba.

Subscribers only Mining, Politics 17.10.2024

Congolese president Félix Tshisekedi on 30 April 2024 in Paris.

Spotlight | DRC
Ailing Gécamines ordered to open its books

Judith Suminwa Tuluka's government is putting pressure on the state-owned mining company, whose profits have decreased. Its management is being closely scrutinised by the portfolio minister, who recently warned of 'serious misconduct' on the part of its financial director.

Free access Mining, Politics 09.10.2024

The Gécamines head-quarter in Lubumbashi, DRC, on 16 January 2021.

Mauritania, Morocco
Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

The businessman will gradually take over Aya Gold & Silver's gold projects in Morocco and Mauritania as Benoît La Salle shifts his focus to the kingdom's silver reserves.

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2024

Ethiopia
Foreign mining companies keen to extend their time in Tigray

With their business stalled by two years of conflict in Tigray, mining companies Newmont, Sun Peak and ANS Exploration are seeking to extend their exploration licences, without however resuming their activities. This is fuelling tension in a region whose economy is struggling to recover from a two-year civil war.

Subscribers only Mining 09.10.2024

DRC, Zambia
Mercuria restructures metals trading division with sights set on African copper

After defecting from Trafigura to Swiss trader Mercuria in June, Kostas Bintas was at the London Metal Exchange week.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 04.10.2024

DRC
Gécamines racks up hefty mission expenses bills

The DR Congo state-owned mining company has since April 2023 been using the services of a travel agency called Malabar Business Travel, which has billed it for several million dollars.

Subscribers only Finance, Mining 02.10.2024

Ethiopia
Tigray gold fuels TPLF infighting

Behind the crisis within the Tigray People's Liberation Front, top party officials are at odds over the northern region's mineral resources. Getachew Reda's provisional administration is trying to regulate the sector, which is still dominated by small-scale and even illegal mining.

Subscribers only Mining, Politics 27.09.2024

Getachew Reda on 7 November 2022 in Nairobi and Debretsion Gebremichael on 8 June 2019 in Mekele.

DRC
Kico tries to kick out mine-adjacent landowners in Kipushi

Pending the relaunch of its mine in Haut-Katanga, Kipushi Corp still has to build a new exit road for its zinc production. But the planned route encroaches on a number of plots of land, whose residents the company wants to evict.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 25.09.2024

Kenya
Mining reforms face resistance

Newly appointed mining minister Ali Hassan Joho intends to overhaul the sector at breakneck speed, at the risk of rekindling old rivalries between Kenya's counties and Nairobi.

Subscribers only Mining, Politics 19.09.2024

Kenya's cabinet secretary for mining, Ali Hassan Joho, on 6 August 2022 in Nairobi.

DRC
Lualaba Power's Nzilo II power station contract under renewed threat

The public procurement regulator in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called on the hydraulic resources ministry to stick to its 2022 decision to cancel the result of a tender for the construction of the Nzilo II hydroelectric power plant.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 04.09.2024

Morocco
Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

The head of Morocco's national oil company ONHYM, Amina Benkhadra, wants to encourage joint ventures with mining juniors in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Several Canadian groups have shown an interest.

Subscribers only Mining 15.07.2024

Amina Benkhadra, head of Morocco's Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines, in Rabat, Morocco, on 15 September 2022.

Ivory Coast, Malawi
Mota-Engil's mining investment arm LGM emerges from shadows

Luso Global Mining, a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Portuguese construction group, has made its first mining investments in Malawi and, more recently, in Ivory Coast. It is targeting gold and critical minerals projects.

Subscribers only Mining 12.07.2024

DRC
Gécamines tries to block Chemaf sale to Chinese firm

State-owned Gécamines is fighting the sale of the mining company Chemaf to the Chinese company Norin Mining and could go so far as to withdraw the licences it has granted to this subsidiary of the Shalina Resources group.

Subscribers only Mining 03.07.2024

DRC
Gécamines and ERG seek to bury the hatchet

DRC's state-owned Gécamines is prepared to negotiate a solution with Kazakh miner Eurasian Resources Group that would end arbitration proceedings underway in Paris and Geneva.

Subscribers only Mining 28.06.2024

Spotlight | South Africa
Pretoria imposes itself in Anglo American's restructuring plan

Gwede Mantashe's Ministry of Mines and the NUM and AMCU unions, which were instrumental in the failure of BHP's takeover bid for Anglo American, want to have a greater say in the mining group's South African strategy.

Subscribers only Mining, Commodity traders 12.06.2024

South African Minister of Mineral and Energy Resources Gwede Mantashe at the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on 9 May, 2022.

Angola
Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

The British government hopes that other companies will follow in the footsteps of the Pensana mining group, which is building Angola's first rare earth mine through one of its subsidiaries.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Mining 23.05.2024

Morocco
After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

The Jbiel mine, which currently produces only a modest volume of copper, has as yet untested cobalt potential. The operator, Kharrouba Copper Mining, is looking for investors and has approached US company Cunningham Mining.

Subscribers only Mining 29.04.2024

DRC
Washington divided over Dan Gertler audit

US diplomat Amos Hochstein, the White House's special coordinator for energy security, is opposed to an exhaustive audit of Dan Gertler's assets. Several other officials want such a review to take place before sanctions imposed on the Israeli billionaire since 2017 are lifted.

Subscribers only Mining 10.04.2024

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Senegal
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Botswana, South Africa
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Copper

Morocco
Investors continue to circle round Jbiel mine

Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco
Washington set to open Development Finance Corporation office in Rabat

Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi's brother's dealings in Lualaba province

Spotlight | DRC
Ailing Gécamines ordered to open its books

Mauritania, Morocco
Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

Ethiopia
Foreign mining companies keen to extend their time in Tigray

DRC, Zambia
Mercuria restructures metals trading division with sights set on African copper

DRC
Gécamines racks up hefty mission expenses bills

Ethiopia
Tigray gold fuels TPLF infighting

DRC
Kico tries to kick out mine-adjacent landowners in Kipushi

Kenya
Mining reforms face resistance

DRC
Lualaba Power's Nzilo II power station contract under renewed threat

Morocco
Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

Ivory Coast, Malawi
Mota-Engil's mining investment arm LGM emerges from shadows

DRC
Gécamines tries to block Chemaf sale to Chinese firm

DRC
Gécamines and ERG seek to bury the hatchet

Spotlight | South Africa
Pretoria imposes itself in Anglo American's restructuring plan

Angola
Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

Morocco
After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

DRC
Washington divided over Dan Gertler audit

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Copper

Morocco Investors continue to circle round Jbiel mine

Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco Washington set to open Development Finance Corporation office in Rabat

Spotlight | DRC Tshisekedi's brother's dealings in Lualaba province

Spotlight | DRC Ailing Gécamines ordered to open its books

Mauritania, Morocco Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

Ethiopia Foreign mining companies keen to extend their time in Tigray

DRC, Zambia Mercuria restructures metals trading division with sights set on African copper

DRC Gécamines racks up hefty mission expenses bills

Ethiopia Tigray gold fuels TPLF infighting

DRC Kico tries to kick out mine-adjacent landowners in Kipushi

Kenya Mining reforms face resistance

DRC Lualaba Power's Nzilo II power station contract under renewed threat

Morocco Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

Ivory Coast, Malawi Mota-Engil's mining investment arm LGM emerges from shadows

DRC Gécamines tries to block Chemaf sale to Chinese firm

DRC Gécamines and ERG seek to bury the hatchet

Spotlight | South Africa Pretoria imposes itself in Anglo American's restructuring plan

Angola Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

Morocco After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

DRC Washington divided over Dan Gertler audit

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Morocco
Investors continue to circle round Jbiel mine

Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco
Washington set to open Development Finance Corporation office in Rabat

Spotlight | DRC
Tshisekedi's brother's dealings in Lualaba province

Spotlight | DRC
Ailing Gécamines ordered to open its books

Mauritania, Morocco
Canadian mining magnate Rick Clark's goals for Mx2

Ethiopia
Foreign mining companies keen to extend their time in Tigray

DRC, Zambia
Mercuria restructures metals trading division with sights set on African copper

DRC
Gécamines racks up hefty mission expenses bills

Ethiopia
Tigray gold fuels TPLF infighting

DRC
Kico tries to kick out mine-adjacent landowners in Kipushi

Kenya
Mining reforms face resistance

DRC
Lualaba Power's Nzilo II power station contract under renewed threat

Morocco
Rabat moves to speed up exploration by foreign mining firms in Western Sahara

Ivory Coast, Malawi
Mota-Engil's mining investment arm LGM emerges from shadows

DRC
Gécamines tries to block Chemaf sale to Chinese firm

DRC
Gécamines and ERG seek to bury the hatchet

Spotlight | South Africa
Pretoria imposes itself in Anglo American's restructuring plan

Angola
Lobito Corridor rare earths capture London's interest

Morocco
After copper, KCM positions itself on cobalt

DRC
Washington divided over Dan Gertler audit