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JSE: ARIDiversifiedAfrican Rainbow MineralsDiversified South African mining group founded in 2003 by Patrice Motsepe through a merger of his mining interests, making him one of the first black industrialists to control a major JSE-listed miner. Motsepe remains its non-executive chairman.
LSE: AALDiversifiedAnglo AmericanLondon-headquartered diversified miner that traces its roots to Johannesburg, where Ernest Oppenheimer founded the Anglo American Corporation in 1917. After demerging its platinum business as Valterra Platinum in 2025 and agreeing to sell its steelmaking coal unit, the group is reshaping itself around copper, premium iron ore and crop nutrients while preparing to merge with Teck Resources to form Anglo Teck.
NYSE: BGoldBarrick MiningCanadian gold and copper miner renamed from Barrick Gold Corporation in 2025 to reflect its growing copper business. Listed in New York and Toronto, it settled a long-running dispute with Mali's government over its Loulo-Gounkoto complex in November 2025, agreeing to pay about $430m and resume operational control.
SSE: 603993CopperCMOCChinese miner, formerly China Molybdenum Company, that has grown into one of the world's largest producers of cobalt and a major copper producer through its Congolese subsidiaries. It is listed in both Shanghai and Hong Kong with state-owned entities holding a minority stake.
DiversifiedEurasian Resources GroupPrivately held mining and metals group formed in December 2013 when its founders and the Kazakh state took Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation private, delisting it from the London and Kazakhstan stock exchanges. Kazakhstan retains a 40% shareholding alongside the founding Ibragimov, Mashkevitch and Chodiev families.TSX: FMCopperFirst Quantum MineralsCanadian copper miner listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange whose Zambian operations were among its founding assets. Copper accounted for about 82% of its revenue as of 2025, with the rest coming from gold and nickel.
CopperGécaminesCongolese state-owned mining company headquartered in Lubumbashi, successor to the colonial-era Union Minière du Haut-Katanga. It sits on some of the world's largest copper and cobalt deposits and holds minority stakes in most of the DRC's major copper-cobalt joint ventures.
LSE: GLENDiversifiedGlencoreAnglo-Swiss commodity trader and miner listed in London and Johannesburg, and a member of the FTSE 100. Its industrial mining division spans copper, cobalt, zinc, nickel, coal and ferroalloys, complementing one of the world's largest physical commodity marketing businesses.
JSE: GFIGoldGold FieldsJohannesburg-headquartered gold producer whose history goes back to Cecil Rhodes's Gold Fields of South Africa, founded in 1887; the current company took shape in 1998. It is among the world's larger gold miners and is listed in Johannesburg and New York. Its Ghanaian operations face uncertainty over the renewal of the Tarkwa mining lease.
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.
SSE: 603799Battery metalsHuayou CobaltChinese battery-materials group headquartered in Zhejiang that began processing Congolese cobalt in 2006 before moving into direct mining. It is the world's largest cobalt refiner by market share and is listed in Shanghai.
JSE: IMPPGMsImplatsOne of the world's largest PGM producers, incorporated in 1966 and headquartered in Illovo, Johannesburg. Implats mines on the two richest PGM ore bodies, South Africa's Bushveld Complex and Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, and also runs Impala Refining Services, which toll-treats metal for other producers.
TSX: IVNCopperIvanhoe MinesCanadian mining company founded by Robert Friedland that has built its business around three flagship discoveries in southern Africa. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is a member of the S&P/TSX Composite Index.LSE: JLPMining servicesJubilee Metals GroupLondon-listed metals recovery specialist founded in 2001 that treats surface tailings and third-party ore rather than operating conventional mines. It trades on London's AIM market and South Africa's A2X.
CopperKamoto Copper CompanyUnlisted Congolese copper and cobalt producer majority owned by Glencore, with the state miner Gécamines holding the remaining stake. Its Kamoto mine near Musonoi has been described as the world's largest active cobalt mine.
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.
HKEX: 1208CopperMMGMelbourne-headquartered base metals miner majority owned by China Minmetals, which holds a 67.49% stake. It is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and operates copper and other base metal mines across several continents.
CopperMopani Copper MinesZambian copper and cobalt producer founded in 2000 around the former Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines' Mufulira and Nkana operations. Ownership passed from ZCCM-IH to the UAE's International Resources Holding, which bought a 51% stake in March 2024.
NYSE: NEMGoldNewmontAmerican gold miner based in Denver and incorporated in 1921, the only gold producer in the S&P 500 and, by output, the world's largest. Its 2023 acquisition of Newcrest Mining added Australian and Canadian assets to a portfolio that already spanned the Americas, Africa and the Asia-Pacific.
LSE: RIODiversifiedRio TintoBritish-Australian mining group founded in 1873 that operates as a dual-listed company across London and Melbourne. It is one of the world's largest diversified miners, producing iron ore, aluminium, copper and lithium.ASX: SFRCopperSandfire ResourcesAustralian copper miner founded in 2003 that rose to prominence through the DeGrussa copper-gold discovery in Western Australia. It later expanded internationally, including into Botswana, and is listed on the ASX.
ASX: S32DiversifiedSouth32Diversified miner spun out of BHP Billiton on 18 May 2015 to house a portfolio of aluminium, manganese, coal and base-metal assets. It is listed in Perth with secondary listings in Johannesburg and London.LuSE: ZCCM-IHCopperZCCM-IHZambian mining investment company created in 2000 as the successor to the state-owned Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines, retaining minority stakes across the country's privatised copper mines. The Zambian government owns 77.7% of the company.
SSE: 601899CopperZijin MiningPartly state-owned Chinese miner headquartered in Fujian province and dual-listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong. It has expanded aggressively into Africa over the past decade to become one of the continent's largest copper investors.