Mining Indaba

Five leaders 🤝 Five perspectives 💡 One industry at a turning point 💎

This week’s quotes spotlight the ideas, challenges and opportunities shaping mining right now.

Featuring:
🔹Bogolo Joy Kenewendo | Minister of Minerals and Energy of Botswana
🔹Ghislain Moandza Mboma | Gabon’s National Investment Promotion Agency
🔹Richard Lilleke | Exxaro
🔹Jérôme Pécresse | Rio Tinto
🔹Ahmed Bin Sulayem | Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange

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Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine and Mintek successfully produced high-purity Mixed Rare Earth Oxalate, marking the first achievement of its kind on the African continent through a collaboration between a mining company and a national research institution.

“This is not only a victory for Steenkampskraal and Mintek; it is a victory for South Africa.” Dr Enock Mathebula I Executive Chairman and Shareholder of Steenkampskraal Monazite Mine

“This milestone is a powerful demonstration of what South Africa can achieve when our research institutions and industry partners unite around a shared vision of value addition and local beneficiation.” Mintek CEO I Dr Molefi Motuku

“The partnership between Steenkampskraal and Mintek is a game changer in the area of rare earth minerals as this development serves as the foundation for longer-term beneficiation plans.” Necsa Group CEO I Loyiso Tyabashe

For South Africa, the successful production of Mixed Rare Earth Oxalate is more than a technical achievement. It is an early indication that the country's long-held ambition of becoming a globally competitive beneficiation hub for critical minerals may be moving closer to reality.

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Strategic partnerships and long-term financing support are expected to play a pivotal role in advancing Giyani Metals' K.Hill high-purity manganese project in Botswana, as the company moves from FS towards project financing and development.

Executive Chair Nigel Robertson says Giyani's progress to date has been underpinned by backing from South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and investment company African Rainbow Capital. Together they have contributed approximately US$26 million towards the company's demonstration plant and DFS.

As the company prepares for the next phase of development, Robertson says attracting additional strategic partners will be critical to bringing the project into production. “This is an innovative project in a developing market, and projects of this scale require partners with long-term capital and strategic interest.”

Giyani is also engaging with the Minerals Development Company Botswana (MDCB) regarding potential collaboration as Botswana seeks to increase downstream mineral beneficiation and capture more value from its mineral resources.

The focus on partnerships comes as Giyani advances plans to develop what could become one of Africa's first integrated producers of battery-grade manganese products following the completion of a positive DFS for the K.Hill project.

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What are people saying about Kinshasa's pushes to regain access to millions of colonial-era geological records as the global competition for critical minerals intensifies?

"We are not only a source of critical minerals; we are a partner in building resilient and transparent global supply chains." – Louis Watum Kabamba, Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo

“The next great mining discoveries will come not from walking more ground, but from learning to see more in the data we already have.” – KoBold Metals

“Unlocking legacy geoscientific datasets is one of the most powerful ways to accelerate discovery in mature and underexplored regions.” – BHP exploration leadership

“Our priority is to ensure that digitisation of historical geological archives benefits Congolese institutions while maintaining scientific integrity and open collaboration.” – Royal Museum for Central Africa digitisation programme

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Five leaders 🤝 Five perspectives 💡 One industry at a turning point 💎

This week’s quotes spotlight the ideas, challenges and opportunities shaping mining right now.

Featuring:
🔹Dr. William Samoei Ruto | President of the Republic of Kenya
🔹Nicholas Fournier | Lobito Atlantic Railway
🔹Al Cook | De Beers
🔹Rob Hersov
🔹Anthea Jeffery | South African Institute of Race Relations

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