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By Ernest Nzor, Abuja Director-General of Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA), Dr Abdulrazaq Garba, said that Nigeria has high-grade lithium minerals to attract more foreign investors to boost the country’s economy....

South Africa’s mining industry, in the second quarter of 2022, recorded its fourth consecutive quarter of production decline, falling by 3.4 % on a seasonally adjusted basis. Juan-Pierre Terblanche, principal...

Nigeria lost close to $3b between 2012 and 2018 due to illegal smuggling of gold out of Nigeria. By Udenna Orji Following the bullish performance of gold in gold exchanges...

Bloomberg News Zimbabwe plans to increase royalty rates on platinum producers and introduce one for lithium miners from Jan. 1 as part of efforts to boost its coffers that have...

Bloomberg Elon Musk has called for more investment in global lithium refining to ease shortages in battery materials — and promised those who seize the opportunity it’s as lucrative as “basically minting money.”...

As the global demand for batteries looks set to continue rising in line with the growth of the EV market and renewable energy projects, the E.U. may soon throw a...

By Udenna Orji and Kasim Sumaina Nigeria’s federal government has selected 40 Nigerian students from the West African nation’s six geopolitical zones to undergo an 8-month master training programme in...

By Andy Home, Reuters. Henry Ford was right all along, it turns out. After decades of honing just-in-time global supply networks, car companies are going back to Ford’s founding principle...

Platinum producer Tharisa Plc has acquired a controlling stake in a platinum group metals (PGMs) project in Zimbabwe which will eventually double its output, it said on Thursday. Tharisa exercised...

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...