Subsequent 12 months’s Investing in Africa Mining Indaba – to be held on the Cape City Worldwide Conference Centre from February 6 to 9 – will function at full capability, as all Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted.
Throughout a media briefing on November 9, portfolio director for the Indaba Simon Ford stated that over 7 000 delegates, together with high-level delegations, have been anticipated to attend subsequent 12 months’s occasion.
The theme of the occasion is ‘Unlocking African Mining Funding: Stability, Safety and Provide’ and is geared toward encouraging funding into Africa’s mining business.
“This theme actually ensures that funding going into African mining is realising its full potential in opposition to a backdrop of a number of financial challenges all over the world, however a number of alternative as nicely,” stated Ford.
New options may even be launched at subsequent 12 months’s occasion, such because the Explorers Showcase, which is able to present a platform for personal or unlisted exploration corporations in Africa to achieve publicity to traders.
“ . . . demonstrating core samples from explorers on the very starting of their mining journey, it implies that we’re now in a position, or offering a platform, to drive funding into each single stage of the mining cycle. We’re working intently with the Division of Mineral Sources and Power in South Africa to try this, because it does assist to assist their exploration drive as nicely,” expressed Ford.
Subjects for subsequent 12 months’s Indaba embody the vitality transition and battery metals, mining within the round economic system and useful resource nationalism.
Moreover, subsequent 12 months’s Indaba will embody a tech-focussed content material programme.
“We have allied [the programme] to our new infrastructure and provide chain discussion board and created a serious three-day content material programme, particularly taking a look at infrastructure, provide chains, expertise and the convergence between all these and the way it impacts each mining communities and the broader international mining economic system,” famous director and head of content material for the Indaba Tom Quinn.
