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GEOPOLITICS OF CRITICAL MINERALS IN RENEWABLE …

THE AFRICAN CLIMATE FOUNDATION GEOPOLITICS OF CRITICAL MINERALS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPLY CHAINS 7 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CRITICAL MINERALS AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA Across developing economies, especially in Africa, the mineral–energy complex is central to the countries' political economy …

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Where are mines located in sub Saharan Africa and how …

1892 and 2018 (70% occurred between 2008 and 2018), of which resource extraction and development was responsible for 62% of events with known causes (n=3015). Within SSA, the Democratic Republic of Congo permitted mineral extraction by enacting 41 PADDD events between 1960 and 2018 (Golden Kroner et al., 2019). Such PADDD events, among

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West Coast mineral extraction raking in billions of rands …

The report finds that mineral extraction in South Africa and other parts of the world continues to produce major social and environmental destruction. The mining of mineral sands is no exception ...

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Arrests and attacks: African countries pursue China's illegal …

Africa's mining and mineral extraction industries, especially in countries like Nigeria, Namibia and Ghana have attracted billions of dollars from China, one of the continent's biggest participants. The vast reserves of cobalt, lithium, copper, and other minerals essential to modern technology production has attracted investment and operations ...

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Toxic coloniality and the legacies of resource extraction …

Resource extraction of valuable metals and minerals has a long history of mediating African interactions with the outside world.9 From the eighth century CE onwards, Arab caravans …

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Mineral Wealth and Protest in Sub-Saharan Africa

types of protests surrounding mineral extraction in sub-Saharan Africa and explains how this extraction encourages contentious activity. On the basis of protest event data from thirty-nine countries in SSA for the 1990–2006 period, as well as available survey data, the article provides confirming evidence that mineral wealth increases

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LLM in the Law of Mineral and Petroleum …

The NRF/DST SARChI Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa offers a specialised LLM in the Law of Mineral and Petroleum Extraction and Use, in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town.. It covers a broad array of topics, with the …

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(PDF) Socio-environmental impacts of mineral mining and …

The African Union can serve as the catalyst for reflexive governance and environmental justice in mineral resource extraction, with citizens also holding national governments accountable. Discover ...

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Arrests and attacks: tracking China's illegal mining in African

Africa's mining and mineral extraction industries, especially in countries like Nigeria, Namibia and Ghana, have attracted billions of dollars from China, one of the continent's biggest participants. The vast reserves of cobalt, lithium, copper, and other minerals essential to modern technology production have attracted investment and ...

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Innovating Mineral Exploration: A Sustainable Approach in SA

This piece examines the innovative methodologies transforming mineral exploration in South Africa, a nation celebrated for its rich mineral resources and mining legacy, with an emphasis on PAR's trailblazing tactics. ... each step is pivotal in evaluating a site's mineral extraction potential. Here is a detailed breakdown:

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Mining Companies Discuss Minerals Extraction in Cape Town

As the world moves away from fossil fuels, mining companies have turned to Africa for its vast mineral resources. For more, VOA's Darren Taylor filed this report. ... Mining Companies Discuss Minerals Extraction in Cape Town 08 February 2024 19:40 Darren Taylor; Embed. Mining Companies Discuss Minerals Extraction in Cape Town .

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Maximizing the Benefits of the Renewed Global …

Many African countries are endowed with significant reserves of the minerals and metals necessary to the global energy transition. While these endowments represent the potential for significant economic windfalls, they …

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25.1 Exploration: Finding minerals | Mining of mineral …

Minerals in South Africa. The Bushveld Igneous Complex has the world's largest primary source of platinum group metals, indicated on the map in light blue. It is one of the most important mining areas in South Africa due to its abundance of minerals. The Cullinan Premier Diamond Mine, near Pretoria, Gauteng.

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Assessment of the relationship between mineral extraction …

The global extraction of mineral resources has surged in recent decades due to growing populations, increasing affluence, and urbanization (as shown in Fig. 1).This trend is expected to continue, especially as the global transition to net-zero emissions and the shift to cleaner energy production require more metals than fossil fuel energy sources (IEA, 2023a, …

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The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another

Africa hosts substantial critical minerals resources, and the continent is currently being positioned as a major global player in the critical minerals supply chain.

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Toxic coloniality and the legacies of resource extraction …

Keywords: African history, extraction, mining, oil drilling, coloniality, environmental humanities, environmental inequality Across Africa, resource extraction accelerated markedly under colonial rule. The decades after 1860, in particular, witnessed a veritable scramble for Africa's mineral

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Trends in extraction of mineral resources in east and …

The current situation in mineral extraction Table 1: Mining's contribution to ESA economies (2016) Since the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley and in the Witwatersrand gold rush in the late nineteenth century, southern African economies have been highly dependent on mineral extraction. Currently, the mining and

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Mineral & Petroleum Extraction

Marine mineral concession zones were established by the then Department of Minerals and Energy in 1994 on the west coast of South Africa, stretching from the Orange River mouth to Saldanha. Several marine mining companies have been granted prospecting and mining rights in these concession areas.

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Harnessing Sub-Saharan Africa's Critical Mineral Wealth

This IMF piece describes the potential for sub-Saharan Africa to develop its critical minerals markets and processing industries amid a global transition to clean energy. Demand for minerals like nickel, cobalt, and lithium is expected to surge by 2050, with sub-Saharan Africa holding 30% of proven reserves. The region could see a 12% GDP boost by 2050, reaping …

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The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another

Processing of critical minerals in Africa would increase their value on the international market, create jobs, and drive the growth of other sectors of the African economy. Until these are carefully considered and fully implemented, the extraction of Africa's critical minerals by foreign mining companies would create another resource curse.

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Reverse the Curse: Creating a Framework to Mitigate the …

resource wealth in African states is mineral-based, this means abuses of human rights that occur during the extraction process itself for the purposes of this Comment. 7. Although development brings better infrastructure and higher standards of living to a state, the human rights abuses at the extraction level

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Africa's critical minerals can power the global low-carbon …

Endowed with at least a fifth of the world's reserves in a dozen minerals, Africa can play a pivotal role in facilitating the global transition away from fossil fuels.

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Harnessing Sub-Saharan Africa's Critical Mineral …

Global revenues from the extraction of just four key minerals—copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium—are estimated to total $16 trillion over the next 25 years, in 2023-dollar terms. Sub-Saharan Africa stands to …

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MINERALS AND AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT

The African Mining Vision (AMV) seeks to shift mineral policy beyond a focus on extracting minerals and sharing revenue. It relates such policy to the demand for

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Socio-environmental impacts of mineral mining and …

Mineral resources extraction impacts were shown to be pervasive across the Southern and West African region. Examining of literature highlights that extraction of minerals often leads to the disruption of ecosystems, polluting water sources, and degrading habitats including cultural heritage critical for the livelihoods of people.

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Harvesting "development minerals" for local needs in sub-Saharan Africa

There is a lengthy history of development minerals extraction in sub-Saharan Africa. As indicated, the commodities which fall into the category of development minerals can be further disaggregated as follows: 1) construction minerals; 2) dimension stones; 3) industrial minerals; and 4) semi-precious stones ( Hilson, 2016, Franks et al., 2020 ).

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Mineral Resources in Africa and Politics of Exploration: An

There is approximately one-third of the world's mineral resources in Africa, but most people in the continent remain so terribly poor and do not benefit from the abundance of natural resources. ... However, land resource is sometimes allocated for mineral extraction operations without engaging community members concerned and hence, host ...

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Transforming Africa's Mineral Wealth: From Extraction to End …

Global demand for critical minerals essential for clean energy technologies is expected to grow more than three-fold by 2030. For Africa – a continent rich in a variety of …

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The critical-minerals boom is here. Can Africa take advantage?

To be blunt, Africa will only reap the benefits from the critical-minerals boom associated with mineral extraction. Concrete action toward the goal of the development of long-awaited value chain enhancement and investment in the continent remains elusive.

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7 Techniques for Extracting Rare Earth Minerals in …

Mining rare earth minerals in South Africa involves advanced extraction processes that aim to efficiently recover valuable elements from mineral deposits. South Africa's rare earth mineral deposits, such as …