Minerals

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...

By Tristan Bove South Africa is by far the world’s largest producer of platinum, a precious metal that is among the rarest on Earth, and extremely valuable to the electronics...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world — its untapped deposits of raw minerals are estimated to be worth in excess of...

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...

In the 20th century, the mining industry brought fortunes into the sleepy villages of Manono, a town in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Before independence in...

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

Canada’s Asante Gold (TSX-V: ASE) has begun operations of the processing plant and associated equipment at its Bibiani gold mine in Ghana. The pure gold exploration and development company has carried an evaluation period during which...

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...

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...