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US ramps up efforts to access Africa’s critical minerals to counter China’s dominance

Africa will play a “huge role” in America’s critical mineral strategy, says US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo who used his five-day trip to South Africa to express his country’s ambitions of securing metals needed for the global energy transition. Africa’s natural richness, which includes many so-called critical minerals, such as chromium, cobalt, copper, gold, […]

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Australia’s Fortescue set to explore at iron ore project in Gabon’s Belinga region

Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group has taken another step forward in its hopes of developing an iron ore mine in Gabon after it signed a majority-owned joint venture agreement with the country’s government. The world’s fourth largest iron ore miner announced Friday (19 August) it had struck an agreement with the government of the West African […]

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Promising Prospects for Moroccan-Indonesian Economic Ties, The Jakarta Post says

Indonesian daily, The Jakarta Post, wrote on Sunday about the promising prospects for the development of economic ties between Indonesia and Morocco, which the paper described as a “regional power in North Africa.” Morocco is a “promising market as well as a gateway to both African and European countries for Indonesian products and investment, as […]

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Mauritania: High Profit Expectations On Iron Production

After Forte energy announced earlier on that it will begin its uranium survey drill at the A238 area in Mauritania during the first quarter of the year, Charter Pacific Corporation has also announced that it will be embarking on a reverse circulation drilling and trenching program at its Kaoua El Khadra Iron Ore project in […]