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The US-China Battle for Africa's Copper Crown...
06 Oct, 2025 09:08
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Africa is strategically pivoting from a raw mineral supplier to a value-adding processing hub, as articulated by leaders like Nigeria's Dr. Dele Alake. This continental vision for local beneficiation and green industrialization, exemplified by mines like Blyvoor diversifying into lithium, coincides with intense geopolitical competition. Superpowers like the U.S. and China are vying for influence and access to critical minerals through infrastructure projects, giving African nations newfound leverage. The central challenge and opportunity lie in harnessing this external competition to fuel internal industrial growth, ensuring that new infrastructure and investment serve Africa's own economic sovereignty and development agenda, rather than perpetuating a modernized extractive model....
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Advisory company establishes local massive mining centre of excellence for EMEA region...
26 Sep, 2025 08:20
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