Western miners lag as oil powers enter race for Africa’s critical metals

The foreign ministry would agree on a UK-Zambia Green Growth Compact, aimed at generating £2.5 billion pounds of British private sector investment.

The company will use a technologically innovative approach to produce high-purity separated magnetic rare earth oxides from waste phosphogypsum stacks.

Agreement will provide Graphex with a diverse supply of raw materials in line with its plans to bring domestic processing facilities online to supply automakers and battery gigafactories.

Trafigura’s metals unit is already under fire after announcing in February it was the victim of a massive alleged nickel fraud.

Several miners active in Niger issued updates this week, reassuring investors and stakeholders that their operations remained largely unaffected.

Cryptocurrency trading gave the CEO an idea for a new source of capital for the junior, which holds a suite of Namibia-based uranium assets.

Niger was the second-largest supplier of natural uranium to the EU last year.

Earlier, some media reported that Orano's uranium exports had been interrupted.

Debswana sold diamonds worth $2.179 billion in H1, compared to $2.622 billion in the same period last year.