Mining Indaba 2025 witnesses fervent discussion on the booming African mining sector, with experts highlighting robust growth and promising investment opportunities in metals like copper, bauxite, and gold.
It was standing room only for the commodity outlook panel at Mining Indaba 2025 today as the mining community squeezed to find space to discuss the state of the market."This is the beginning of what will be a golden age for the African mining sector," Nicolas Snowdon, head of metals and mining research at Mercuria Energy Trading, said to delegates at Mining Indaba.
But I think one of the challenges is with the cyclicality of the sector; we need to have a staged approach to the development of assets to ensure a smooth supply-demand cycle.""There is a need. As we look forward to 2050, we are going to need 56Mt - or 80-90% more than we have today," he added.China Companies will have to work with China in order to bring more copper to market, Horrocks-Taylor added.
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