Africa's Premier Energy & Resources Intelligence Platform
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The core electrification metal. African supply is concentrated in the Central African Copperbelt across the DRC and Zambia.
Battery cathode input produced largely as a copper by-product in the DRC, which accounts for the majority of world mine supply.
Africa's gas story runs through the Rovuma Basin, Nigeria, Egypt and Algeria, and is increasingly evaluated on liquefaction capacity rather than reserves.
Guinea is the world's largest bauxite exporter; the strategic question is how much value is captured through domestic alumina refining.
Smelting is a power business. Africa's largest smelters — Mozal in Mozambique and Hillside in South Africa — depend on long-term electricity supply.
Simandou introduces a new high-grade supply source into the seaborne market, with rail and port capacity as the critical path.
Ghana, South Africa, Mali, Tanzania and Burkina Faso anchor African gold output across large-scale and artisanal production.
Anode feedstock. Mozambique and Tanzania hold some of the largest natural flake graphite resources outside China.
Zimbabwe, Mali, Namibia and Ghana have moved African hard-rock lithium from exploration into production and concentrate export.
Namibia and Niger are the principal African suppliers into the nuclear fuel cycle.
South African thermal coal and Mozambican coking coal remain significant export earners and power-sector inputs.
Kabanga in Tanzania is one of the largest development-stage nickel sulphide deposits globally.
Nigeria, Angola, Libya and Algeria remain the largest African producers, with Namibia the most-watched frontier.
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.
Botswana is the world's leading producer of natural diamonds by value, with Namibia's marine deposits, Angola and the DRC forming the rest of Africa's supply.
