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South Korea has indicated a strategic reorientation of its engagement with Nigeria from the conventional aid-centric approach to a partnership based on mutual responsibility, institution building, and economic cooperation. South Korea is restructuring its relationship with Nigeria, moving from the...

International financiers have gone ahead with funding $1.3bn for Zambia Rail Project connecting copper-producing areas of Zambia to global export markets, a project that might transform mineral supply chains and boost the contribution of Africa to the energy transition. Funding $1.3bn...

An exploratory project, backed by the US, aims to tap rare earth elements from industrial mining waste in two huge sand-like dunes at a former chemical processing plant in South Africa. The Phalaborwa Rare Earths Project has US support by means...

As geopolitical disputes escalate, critical mineral access becomes a new front in great power rivalry. The rules for their extraction and management are scattered, but one UN body establishes tools that could potentially plug regulatory cracks. Countries are ramping up their...

Africa’s drive to shift from being a supplier of raw minerals to a center of value-added processing will ultimately rely not on the accessibility of resources, but rather on if the continent is capable of overcoming infrastructure issues. That was...

True North Copper has fired the rigs on its Mt Oxide project, located in northwest Queensland, kicking off a new joint drilling campaign so as to grow the Aquila cobalt, silver and copper discovery in Australia. The phase one program will consist of 6000m of...

The first phase drilling program is being conducted at the 100% owned Condobolin epithermal gold-silver-base metals project in the Cobar Basin. It is a capital-efficient, self-funded drilling program of almost diamond drill holes It is the first systematic drilling in a...