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.
Aya Gold & Silver's Zgounder mine in Morocco produced 1.5-million ounces of silver in the second quarter of 2026, up 43% year on year, helping lift group revenue 151% to $96.8m.
Silver set a fresh all-time high near $121.67 an ounce on 26 January 2026, riding the same safe-haven and industrial-demand wave that carried gold above $5,000.
NYSE: AUGoldAngloGold AshantiGold miner formed in 2004 by the merger of AngloGold and the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation. It completed a corporate restructuring in September 2023 that moved its primary listing to the New York Stock Exchange and its domicile to England, while keeping secondary listings in Johannesburg, on A2X and in Accra.
TSX: FVIGoldFortuna MiningCanadian precious-metals miner, formerly Fortuna Silver Mines, that entered West Africa through the acquisition of Roxgold in 2021. It is listed in Toronto and New York.
JSE: HARGoldHarmony GoldSouth Africa's largest gold miner by output, founded in 1950 and based in Randfontein on the West Rand. Harmony has spent the past decade buying up deep-level mines and is now diversifying into copper, completing its $1.01bn purchase of MAC Copper, owner of Australia's CSA mine, in October 2025.
CSE: MNGDiversifiedManagemMoroccan mining group founded in 1930, part of the royal holding company Al Mada, that extracts and markets base metals, precious metals and cobalt across Africa. It is listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange.
