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Zimbabwe’s ban on lithium ore exports has resulted in stockpiles of the key battery metal building up in the southern African country. The ban — introduced by the government last December in...

Zambia’s decision three years ago to take control of a copper mine in the country’s north will be subject to an arbitration hearing in January in London, the country’s mines...

Almost three-quarters of the world’s cobalt comes from Congo

Burundi plans to increase its national budget by almost 40% for the fiscal year starting this month, July, as it eyes revenue from a nickel concession it awarded to a...

An intensifying feud between shareholders of the giant Tenke Fungurume mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo may lead a court-appointed administrator to block its exports of copper and cobalt, effectively removing...

The military junta that took control of Guinea in September is heaping pressure on multinational miners to refine raw bauxite, a raw material used to make aluminium, to more advanced...

Bloomberg News  China Molybdenum Co. endorsed the involvement of an independent third-party to resolve its dispute with Democratic Republic of Congo over new royalty payments for its massive Tenke copper...

Bloomberg News A mining company controlled by billionaire Robert Friedland has secured access to a Liberian railway that opens the way for it to tap vast iron ore reserves in...

TOM BOWKER and TOM KRISHER LONDON (AP) — Tesla is turning to Mozambique for a key component in its electric car batteries in what analysts believe is a first-of-its-kind deal designed to...

Congo president bans issuing of mining permits, calls for audit of mining registry to fight fraud KINSHASA - Democratic Republic of Congo President, Felix Tshisekedi, has demanded a ban on...