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60 mins
- Strategic Track
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60 mins
- Strategic Track
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60 mins
- Strategic Track
As the demand for strategic minerals surges, Africa has an opportunity to capture greater value from its resources through investment, infrastructure development and regional collaboration. This discussion explores how cross-border partnerships, local beneficiation and integrated value chains can strengthen Africa's role in global supply chains, driving long-term economic growth.
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15 mins
- Strategic Track
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60 mins
- Strategic Track
This high-level dialogue examines how African mining nations can attract global investment and forge partnerships across the entire mining value chain. It will explore how public–private collaboration can de-risk projects, mobilise capital, and align international investment with national development priorities, ensuring that foreign interest translates into in-country value addition.
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Lunch for Speakers and Delegates60 mins
- Strategic Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
Most mining operations still run on non-intelligent systems: static spreadsheets for scheduling, manual core logging for geological models, paper-based permitting trackers, reactive maintenance logs, and ESG reports compiled by hand months later. Where AI has been adopted, it’s usually bolted onto one of these systems in isolation, a forecasting tool here, a computer vision model there, without ever touching the others. This technical workshop argues that the real transformation isn’t installing AI in one department; it’s replacing that patchwork of disconnected, static systems with a single, continuously updated intelligence layer that learns across the full value chain and stays aligned with regulators at every step.
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10 mins
- Strategic Track
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
This discussion addresses rail and port inefficiencies, explores connectivity improvements and how markets can maximise regional corridors to enhance cross-border trade, ensuring the timely delivery of goods.
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90 mins
- Roundtable
Africa's critical minerals journey: From resource wealth to industrial powerhouse
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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10 mins
- Strategic Track
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60 mins
- Strategic Track
Sponsored by AFC
Capturing greater value from Africa's mineral resources requires more than processing plants, it requires integrated industrial ecosystems. This session will explore how reliable power, water security, desalination, special economic zones and industrial parks can be developed alongside mineral projects to create competitive processing hubs and attract downstream manufacturing investment.
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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45 mins
- Technical Track
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
Junior mining companies face significant financing constraints, from high upfront capital requirements to limited access to infrastructure and technical expertise. This finance-led panel examines innovative funding models, strategic partnerships, and risk-sharing mechanisms that can unlock capital, reduce development costs, and accelerate project delivery.
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60 mins
- Roundtable
As global competition for resources intensifies, African governments are increasingly asserting sovereignty over their mineral wealth through export bans, mandated local processing, and increased state equity. While aimed at driving domestic industrialization, sudden policy shifts can deter the foreign capital required to build these projects. This high-level panel brings together mining ministers, investors, and legal experts to explore how to move past adversarial relations. The discussion will focus on designing flexible, win-win fiscal regimes and stable partnership structures that protect national socio-economic interests while providing the regulatory certainty international investors demand.
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
This discussion focuses on how mining companies can build strong partnerships with local businesses and integrate local content into its operations. It explores initiatives such as joint ventures, creating procurement opportunities for local companies in the supply chain.
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150 mins
- Strategic Track
Sponsored by Moore Global
Venue: Mountain View, CTICC 2
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180 mins
- Roundtable
Hosted by Africa Minerals Strategy Group (AMSG)
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
As gold prices remain high amid global uncertainty, African producers have a clear opportunity to increase output, boost foreign exchange earnings, and attract sustained investment. This panel will explore how African gold-producing nations and companies can expand output responsibly and optimise existing and new projects.
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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15 mins
- Strategic Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
With the growing desire to move beyond raw mineral extraction towards local beneficiation, this panel explores how governments, financiers and industry players can unlock investment in gold refining by creating transparent regulatory frameworks, mitigation risks. It will also examine how regional cooperation and public-private partnerships can enable competitive and sustainable gold refining hubs across the continent.
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30 mins
- Technical Track
As the global transition toward clean energy technologies accelerates, securing supply chains for critical minerals has become a paramount economic and geopolitical objective, positioning Africa—with its vast, untapped reserves of lithium, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements—at the absolute center of this paradigm shift. This presentation provides a comprehensive metals and mining market outlook, examining the shifting supply-demand dynamics, pricing trajectories, and evolving investment landscapes that are shaping these vital commodity markets.
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55 mins
- Strategic Track
Presentation: Kwaku Nsiah-Asare, CEO, Typhoon Greenfield Development LTD Artisanal and small-scale gold mining plays a significant role in the development of many African economies, however, the pre ...
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30 mins
- Technical Track
Africa’s mining sector is experiencing a divergent reality: surging investment amidst soaring operational expenses. While global exploration budgets declined in 2025, Africa bucked the trend, hitting a decade-high spend concentrated in stable West African gold jurisdictions and the Copperbelt. Simultaneously, the industry faces a structural shift in production economics. Mining costs have surged 40% since 2020 due to deeper deposits, declining ore grades, and persistent inflation. This session will explore how operators are navigating this margin squeeze by optimizing run rates, renegotiating fiscal terms, and deploying capital strategically to unlock the continent’s mineral wealth in a permanently higher-cost environment.
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Lunch for Speakers and Delegates60 mins
- Strategic Track
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60 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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60 mins
- Roundtable
This roundtable explores how African countries are using critical minerals to strengthen geopolitical influence and negotiate strategic international partnerships, while also structuring investment frameworks that attract capital into mining projects. The discussion will examine how governments, investors and mining companies can align diplomacy, trade agreements and partnership models such as joint ventures and equity participation to balance national interests with long-term value creation and project bankability.
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30 mins
- Strategic Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
From AI-powered analytics and geomapping to remote sensing, drones and digital mining solutions, advanced technologies are reshaping how mineral resources are discovered, developed and managed. This session will explore how these innovations are improving exploration success, enhancing resource modelling, optimising operational efficiency and supporting safer, more sustainable mining practices.
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45 mins
- Technical Track
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120 mins
- Roundtable
This roundtable convenes US officials, African mining ministers, and mining executives to accelerate US investment in Africa's critical minerals. Amid intense global competition for transition metals, the session focuses on leveraging vehicles like the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP) and the DFC to finance regional infrastructure (such as the Lobito Corridor), support local downstream processing, and establish robust ESG frameworks.
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
As demand for critical minerals continues to rise, mining companies face increasing pressure to secure reliable energy, sustainable water supplies, and efficient waste management systems. This session will explore how governments, utilities, infrastructure providers, and mining companies can collaborate to overcome resource constraints, reduce operational risk, and accelerate the production of minerals essential for batteries, energy storage, and low-carbon technologies.
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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10 mins
- Strategic Track
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
As host nations seek to maximize domestic value, this session examines how National Mining Companies can transform raw geological potential into bankable, investable project pipelines. It addresses the legal, technical, and governance readiness needed to mitigate risks and secure funding through public-private partnerships, sovereign capital, and development finance.
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45 mins
- Strategic Track
Global shipping disruptions, trade realignments, and geopolitical tensions are driving intense international demand for Africa’s vital energy resources, particularly uranium for baseline nuclear power and strategic critical minerals. Guided by expert advisory on environmental and geopolitical risk, this session evaluates how host nations can navigate international trade pressures while maximizing long-term strategic positioning.
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track
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30 mins
- Technical Track