A freight train carries iron ore from the Nimba deposit along the ‘Liberty Corridor’ to the port of Buchanan, Liberia, for ArcelorMittal © jbdodane/Alamy A proposed US-aligned iron ore supply route…
South Africa has become Israel’s leading supplier of thermal coal after Colombia enacted a full ban on coal exports to the country, reshaping trade flows in a market already under…
Liberia has secured approval from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for a major project aimed at sharply reducing mercury pollution in the country’s artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector,…
For decades, African policymakers have returned to the same unresolved question: how can the continent extract greater economic value from its mineral wealth rather than exporting raw materials and importing…
Former child mine worker Divine Komba is now a teenager learning to become a mechanic through the Bank-financed school and vocational skills program. As global demand surges for battery-powered consumer…
(Photo: Kaiya project. Source: Sovereign Metals | Twitter.) Australia-based Sovereign Metals has entered into a strategic agreement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group,…
The Séguéla gold mine in Côte d’Ivoire. (Image courtesy of Fortuna Silver Mines.) Fortuna Mining is sharpening its focus on West Africa as it seeks to restore annual gold production to…
The United States government has delayed the signing of a $1.5 billion health aid agreement with Zambia, making the release of funds contingent on new terms for collaboration in the…
Equinox Gold’s Aurizona mine in Brazil. Credit: Equinox Gold Equinox Gold has announced the sale of its Brazilian operations to China’s CMOC Group in a transaction valued at more than…
By Baffour Agyeman Prempeh Boakye Critical minerals have become a frontline of great-power competition, with U.S. dependence on China exposing deep supply-chain vulnerabilities despite a flurry of domestic orders and…