Understanding the Long-Term Impacts of Natural Resource Extraction …
Africa Mining Vision Regional initiatives such as the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) seek to manage the impacts of extractive industries including through broader dissemination and awareness-raising on environmental risks, and increase public participation in decision-making processes.
The role of extractives in Africa's inclusive green …
A new World Bank Group report (2020) reveals that the production of minerals such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, could increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for clean...
Our work in Africa | UNEP
Africa is rich in natural resources ranging from arable land, water, oil, natural gas, minerals, forests and wildlife. The continent holds a huge proportion of the world's natural resources, both renewables and non-renewables. Africa is home to some 30 percent of the world's mineral reserves, eight per cent of the world's natural Gas and 12 per cent of …
Mining & Mineral Exploration: Steps & Approach
The mineral exploration process is a complex and systematic approach that involves several key steps, often referred to as the stages of mineral exploration. Each step is crucial in determining the potential of a site for mineral extraction. Here is a more comprehensive breakdown of the process: Step 1: Desktop Research and Data Analysis
Overcoming the colonial development model of resource extraction …
Overcoming the colonial development model of resource extraction for sustainable development in Africa ... Africa's huge natural resource endowment should enhance the process of vertical ...
Africa's Mining Potential: Trends, Opportunities, Challenges …
Africa is endowed with abundant mineral resources, including gold, silver, copper, uranium, cobalt, and many other metals which are key inputs to manufacturing processes around the world. The mining and extractive sector has contributed and continues to contribute a significant share of Africa's exports, revenue and GDP annually. In 2019, …
Mining industry in Africa
Africa is a major producer of many key mineral commodities, with bountiful reserves of metals and minerals such as gold, diamond, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, coal, and copper …
Extractive Industry Law in Africa Unit (EILA)
Welcome to the homepage for the Extractive Industries Law in Africa Unit (EILA) at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. The Unit focuses on extractive industries teaching and research from a multi-disciplinary perspective, with a particular emphasis on the law and policy aspects associated with contemporary oil, gas and mineral extraction in Africa.
Top 10 richest mineral-producing countries in Africa
Africa is home to approximately 30% of the world's entire mineral reserves. While some countries rely on oil, some are rich in diamonds, and others in gold, copper, cobalt, coal, iron ore,...
Morocco seeks to extract and process a wider variety of mineral …
As Morocco works to diversify its economy, the extraction and processing of a wider variety of its mineral resources has been identified by government officials to be a strategic imperative for economic development. Leading Segment. Mining accounts for 10% of GDP, but roughly 90% of extraction is phosphates.
African Minerals Development Centre | African Union
develop a diversified and globally competitive African mineral industry which contributes to broad economic and social growth through the creation linkages; contribute to the regional integration …
The Africa Mining Vision: a manifesto for more …
For centuries, the fates of African societies have, in some way, been inextricably linked to mineral extraction. This goes back …
Critical Mineral Mining and Sustainable Development in …
Critical Mineral Mining and Sustainable Development in Africa. By Mama Nissi Abanga Abugnaba. As a continent with abundant natural resources, such as large reserves of …
Guiding the Future: UN launches new panel on critical …
Africa is home to some of the world's most critical mineral reserves. A proliferation of electronics and clean energy technologies is projected to increase the global demand for minerals like ...
Why the wealth of Africa does not make Africans wealthy
The book 'The Looting Machine' documents resource extraction across Africa. ... including vast deposits of precious minerals such as diamonds, gold, and tantalum.
The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another
Processing of critical minerals in Africa would increase their value on the international market, create jobs, and drive the growth of other sectors of the African economy. Until these are carefully considered and fully implemented, the extraction of Africa's critical minerals by foreign mining companies would create another resource …
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6. Significance of the mining sector in Africa - Africa is well endowed with mineral resources. It harbours the world's largest mineral reserves of platinum, gold, diamonds, …
Africa's move from raw material exports toward mineral …
Abstract For the last 500 years, the West has mapped Africa as a source of raw materials, disrupted vibrant African value addition, and arrogated itself as the place where industrial revolutions (value addition) happen. This strategy is clearly traceable from the transatlantic slave trade, continuing through European colonialism, to the current …
Extractive industries and the environment: Production, pollution…
Mineral extraction and environmental consequences between past and future. Collectively, the papers in this special issue assert the importance of taking a historical perspective towards resource extraction.
African Minerals Development Centre | African Union
The Africa Minerals Governance Framework (AMGF); Geological and Minerals Information System (GMIS) AMV-Private Sector Compact; African Minerals and Energy Resource Classification Management System and Pan African Reporting Code (AMREC-PARC) African Union Commodity Strategy.
Harnessing Sub-Saharan Africa's Critical Mineral Wealth
With growing demand, proceeds from critical minerals are poised to rise significantly over the next two decades. Global revenues from the extraction of just four …
Moving towards deep underground mineral resources: …
Due to the long history of mining, shallow mineral deposits are nearly depleted, leaving the remainder of mineral resources deeper in the Earth's crust (Litvinenko, 2020). There are several main drivers that motivate the extraction of subsurface mineral deposits that include: a) Population growth and improvements in the …
Colonial extractivism and development: The state and
Consequently, these mineral extraction areas were transformed from peripheral spaces to economic cores, with obligations to both overseas shareholders' through profits, and to the colonial state through fiscal contributions. ... Recent research has highlighted a bias towards large-scale extraction in sub-Saharan African mining, ...
List of Minerals in Kenya and Where They Are Mined
List of Minerals in Kenya and Where They Are Mined. Kenya has attracted the attention of global players following the recent discoveries of world-class deposits of oil, coal, and other hydrocarbons.
Mineral Law in Africa | Mineral Law in Africa
The "Mineral Law in Africa Library" (MLiA Library) is a series of specialist scholarly texts to inform debates about revision of existing legal frameworks and development of new legal frameworks in the extractives sectors of African jurisdictions. The MLiA Library initiative will result in the development of a body of African scholarship on the law of the extractives …
With Africa's minerals in demand, Russia and the US each …
Two months later, Burkina Faso's minister of energy, mining, and quarries told Sputnik Africa that Russian companies can become "strategic partners" in the extraction of minerals—such as gold, zinc, manganese, copper, graphite, and lithium—from mines and quarries.
The Dark Side of Congo's Cobalt Rush | The New Yorker
They understood that the best way to extract Congo's mineral wealth quickly was to create infrastructure. The company cleared the thickets of thorny acacias and miombo trees that had grown atop ...
7 surprising findings about resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa
Ivailo Izvorski ranks resource-rich sub-Saharan African countries by their aggregate natural resource endowment and shares seven surprising findings.
LLM (Masters) in Extractive Industries Law in Africa
EIL 803: The South African Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (MPRDA) The aim of this module is to equip students with a thorough understanding of conceptual and practical aspects of the South African Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act and the various related laws, regulations and jurisprudence.
Critical Minerals in Africa | United States Institute of Peace
Often throughout Africa's history, natural resource exploitation has brought devastating consequences. However, it's clear that Africa's critical minerals will be developed regardless of the risks. The question is: How will critical …