A wave of sustainability-linked mining bonds was in development across Zambia and the DRC as of 24 July 2026, aiming to raise over $100m per deal to formalise artisanal miners and fund shared infrastructure alongside industrial projects.
African Rainbow Minerals will spend R15.2bn over seven years redeveloping Bokoni in Limpopo, which it placed on care and maintenance in 2025, and will restart the Nkomati nickel mine for R753m.
Guinea shipped a record 114.8-million tonnes of bauxite in the first half of 2026, up 15% year on year, as robust Chinese demand offset rising fuel and freight costs across the world's top bauxite exporter.
Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has warned against locking South Africa into hard deadlines for closing coal-fired power stations, saying rigid targets could trigger a new supply crisis.
Kumba railed 8.9 million tonnes to Saldanha Bay in the second quarter, 8% less than in the first, after Transnet took the ore line out for ten days of restoration work that replaced 101km of track.
Even as Durban wins praise as the world's most-improved port, chrome and ferrochrome exporters face vessel waits of up to four days and inland corridor delays that erase much of the gain.
The Manono lithium project in the DRC, controlled by China's Zijin Mining, received certification for its first export batch in July 2026, making the country a lithium producer for the first time.
Sibanye-Stillwater has filed an appeal against the US International Trade Commission's May finding that imports of Russian unwrought palladium did not materially injure the domestic industry.
Zimbabwe has railed its first 1,000-tonne shipment of lithium concentrate from Tsingshan's Gwanda mine to Maputo, using NRZ, Grindrod's BBR and Silvergill on a roughly 1,000km route.
Setrag signed a €312m financing agreement with the IFC and Proparco on 20 July 2026 for the third phase of modernising the Trans-Gabon Railway, the line that carries manganese ore from Moanda to the Atlantic coast.
Eramet and the Gabonese government have signed a memorandum of understanding setting out an industrial roadmap to process up to 700,000 tonnes of manganese ore a year in Gabon by 2031, ahead of a planned export ban.
South African PGM shares have fallen with a basket price down more than 30% from January, but banks including RMB Morgan Stanley, Nedbank and UBS say fundamentals remain intact and valuations now look attractive.
Tharisa said its Apollo underground portal remained on time and budget after its first blast in March 2026, part of a $547m transition intended to extend mining at its namesake operation by more than 60 years.
Maamba Energy's $450m Phase II expansion, adding 300MW of thermal capacity plus a 100MW solar plant, is targeted for completion around July 2026, doubling Zambia's largest independent power producer.
Tharisa produced 39,600oz of PGMs in its third quarter to June 2026, up from 34,300oz, and kept full-year guidance, while warning that chrome prices had eased on weaker stainless steel demand.
Iron ore prices in China stood at $109.43 a tonne in June 2026, with record port stockpiles and weak construction demand offsetting stronger manufacturing steel use.
Mali's transitional parliament has approved a law creating a new state agency, OMASP, to regulate and secure the sale of gold and other precious minerals amid huge estimated smuggling losses.
The DRC said it expects no major disruption to copper and cobalt production despite Middle East supply-chain pressure, reporting first-quarter copper exports of 824,000 tonnes.
Rössing Uranium celebrated 50 years of operation at a ceremony in Swakopmund, with Chinese majority owner CNNC pledging continued investment in the world's longest-running open-pit uranium mine.
Lindian Resources has completed the first production blast at its Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi, starting active mining ahead of a targeted fourth-quarter start-up.
South Africa's Asset Forfeiture Unit has permanently seized seven trucks found loaded with chrome ore after a North West High Court order, stemming from a 2025 raid on an illegal mining operation at Marulakop.
Transalloys, South Africa's only remaining manganese alloy smelter, stopped all furnace operations on 1 July 2026 after being excluded from the emergency electricity tariff that rescued ferrochrome producers.
Aurum Resources has declared a maiden 1.21 million ounce probable ore reserve for its Boundiali gold project in Côte d'Ivoire, backed by a pre-feasibility study showing a post-tax NPV of $1.5 billion.
Ghana's GIADEC has signed a €300m memorandum of understanding with Italy's Danieli to build an aluminium foil rolling plant in Tema, capable of producing up to 45,000 tonnes a year.
