African mining news

De Beers Group has set out portfolio and organisational actions to support long-term value creation as rough diamond trading conditions are expected to remain challenging in the near-term.

Westfill has secured a backfill-focused contract at the Khoemacau Copper Mine in Botswana, delivering both operational support and workforce training from early May 2026.

Mohamed Ghali, Komet Irrigation, explores why reliability is becoming a key consideration in dust suppression systems and how this supports safer, more efficient mining operations.

Multotec has supplied a range of high-performance spiral equipment to the Thaba JV chromite and Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) project in South Africa’s Limpopo province.

Sam Hosack, Managing Director at Prospect Resources Ltd, considers how global demand is accelerating while copper supply is struggling to keep pace, resulting in rising competition to meet future production needs.

Fortuna Mining Corp. has received an environmental decree from the Government of Senegal approving the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for the Diamba Sud Gold Mine.

JCHX has booked an order with Sandvik for a 45-unit fleet of underground mining equipment for use at MMG’s Khoemacau Copper Mine (KCM) in Botswana.

Robit has signed several supply agreements in strategically important mining markets for the company in Australia, North America, and South Africa.

Fran van der Berg and Ashwini Khunte, Martin Engineering, offer their perspectives on how the transformation of the gender imbalance in mining is unfolding.

The viability of mining projects can increasingly be compromised by unforeseen challenges to their environmental and social sustainability – highlighting the role of due diligence from the earliest stages of project planning.