Gold
Ghana, South Africa, Mali, Tanzania and Burkina Faso anchor African gold output across large-scale and artisanal production.
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- Leading African producers
- South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana
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Leading African producers
South Africa
South Africa has the continent's deepest mining, metals and chemicals industrial base, and its energy agenda is dominated by Eskom's generation fleet, transmission capacity and the renewables procurement programme.
Zambia
Zambia's copper growth ambition depends as much on hydropower availability and Lobito Corridor logistics as on orebody quality.
Tanzania
Tanzania hosts the Kabanga nickel deposit and significant gold production, while the onshore LNG project remains subject to commercial agreement.
Ghana
Ghana is among Africa's largest gold producers, with offshore oil production at Jubilee and TEN and an emerging lithium development agenda.
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Copper
The core electrification metal. African supply is concentrated in the Central African Copperbelt across the DRC and Zambia.
Platinum Group Metals
South Africa's Bushveld Complex holds the largest platinum group metal reserves in the world and supplies the majority of global mined platinum, with Zimbabwe the second African source.
Coal
South African thermal coal and Mozambican coking coal remain significant export earners and power-sector inputs.
Iron Ore
Simandou introduces a new high-grade supply source into the seaborne market, with rail and port capacity as the critical path.
Cobalt
Battery cathode input produced largely as a copper by-product in the DRC, which accounts for the majority of world mine supply.
Nickel
Kabanga in Tanzania is one of the largest development-stage nickel sulphide deposits globally.
Related news
Eskom energy availability reaches 68.2%, highest in six years
Eskom reports a financial-year-to-date Energy Availability Factor of 68.2%. Year-to-date diesel spend fell R4.87 billion (80.47%) to R1.18 billion, and the utility reports 5,695 MW of surplus capacity.
Lobito Corridor volumes become the metric to watch for Copperbelt exports
The Atlantic route shortens transit versus east coast alternatives; realised tonnage will determine its strategic weight.
Tanzania positions Kabanga as an in-country refining model
The project's hydrometallurgical route is framed as a test of whether African nickel can move beyond concentrate export.
Transmission capacity, not generation, now frames South Africa's renewables debate
Grid access constraints in high-resource provinces are the binding factor for new renewable capacity.
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- U.S. Geological Survey
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