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Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Peak Rare Earths (PRE) has been granted a special mining licence (SML) by Tanzania's government for its Ngualla rare earth project. The $321m project involves a mine, mill and concentrator plant in southern Tanzania, 150km from Mbeya.

CrossBoundary Energy’s 8MWp solar PV installation is now dispatching power to Rio Tinto’s QIT Madagascar Minerals ilmenite facility in Taolagnaro, the Nairobi-headquartered developer told African Energy, while the project’s 8.2MWh battery energy storage system is also in the final stages of commissioning.

CrossBoundary Energy has confirmed to African Energy the expected commissioning date for its 11.25MWp solar PV and 8.5MW/MWh battery energy storage facility to supply Syrah Resources’ Twigg/Balama graphite project in Mozambique.

Australian-listed Leo Lithium and joint venture partner China’s Ganfeng Lithium have acquired two further licence areas adjacent to their Goulamina project’s existing concession. The project's initial definitive feasibility study envisaged a 15MW on-site diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG) power plant under a build-own-operate structure. In April, Leo said a tender for power supply had been released by the JV.

Elcora Advanced Materials is preparing to make its first manganese shipments from Morocco, while also developing a vanadium mine with plans to supply the European battery market.

A series of agreements have been signed by Australia Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed firms involved in graphite projects, in a further sign of Tanzania’s potential to become a leading exporter.

The rapid development of five lithium projects bodes well for Zimbabwe’s potential as a minerals exporter and demonstrates China’s central role in mineral developments, as Harare takes steps to promote domestic processing industries. But serious governance concerns remain over artisanal mining and customs-evading exports.

A surge of new mining projects in Zimbabwe – encouraged by a government keen to raise more export revenues – is leading to a rapid increase in demand for electricity, but persistent supply deficits threaten to derail the ambitious plans for the sector.

Australia Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Ionic Rare Earths has received approval  rom Uganda's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to start work on the demonstration plant at its 5m t/yr Makuutu magnet and heavy rare earths project.

London Stock Exchange (LSE)-listed Pensana said on 3 April that $550m of financing for its Longonjo mixed rare earth sulphate mine in Angola and its Saltend rare earth separation facility in the United Kingdom was “at an advanced stage”.

London Stock Exchange (LSE)-listed Tirupati Graphite said on 3 April that it had completed the acquisition of Suni Resources, the Mozambican subsidiary of Australia Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Battery Minerals.

Competition among international powers over access to critical raw minerals was intense even before Russia’s President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But the conflict has focused minds even more sharply in the United States and European Union over the ground they have ceded to China in relation to rare earth minerals and other essential supplies.

First Quantum Minerals (FQM) is hoping to complete 430MW of solar and wind projects in time for the commissioning of a $1.25bn expansion at its Kansanshi mine in Solwezi, North Western province, a company executive told African Energy.

London AIM- and Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed Atlantic Lithium expects to receive official approval for Ghana’s first lithium mine in the coming months, despite some investor-driven controversy over its project.

US player West Africa LNG has a $300m deal to build a liquefied natural gas import and distribution terminal to supply gas to power-hungry miners and to-be-developed alumina processing facilities in a country where previous efforts to expand the grid have faltered and significant additional generation capacity will be required to develop alumina processing at scale. Chaired by a former US ambassador to Guinea, WALNG has yet to expand on financing and other critical details.