China and India are increasingly competing for copper and cobalt exploration and mining rights across the African continent to secure critical mineral supplies. India has launched a new policy to ...

Copper is now Africa’s second most valuable export after crude oil, with an estimated trade value of $35 billion in 2024. But while 52 out of 54 African countries export copper, a staggering 98% of ...

JOHANNESBURG/ LONDON (Reuters) - Africa's biggest copper producers, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, are working on deals to gain exposure to metal trading as a demand surge linked to ...

An Africa copper mine is taking big steps towards modernizing and decarbonizing its copper mining operations and strengthening its partnerships with Beijing through the purchase and deployment of ...

Prices surged above $12,000 a tonne in December amid supply disruptions and US tariff speculation, and analysts still see copper holding on to much of those gains next year. A Reuters poll puts ...

African copper shipments to China are being disrupted by the temporary closure of a crucial exporting port in Tanzania following election unrest. Copper traders and producers in the central Africa ...

Ivanhoe Mines produced the first 99.7% pure copper anodes at its Kamoa-Kakula smelter on Dec. 29, 2025. The $700 million facility can process 500,000 tonnes of concentrate per year, making it Africa’s ...

ASX- and JSE-listed metals explorer and developer Orion Minerals (56.25%) and South African national development finance institution Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, or IDC (43.75%) ...