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2027 Agenda

Nubian Pyramids Stage (CTICC2 - Ground Floor - Exhibition Hall)

No discovery, no value chain

Critical & Strategic Minerals
Exploration
Geopolitics
11 Feb 2027
9:009:45

As competition for exploration capital intensifies and discoveries become harder to make, panellists will challenge the industry's assumptions about where value creation really begins.  

Has exploration been overshadowed by the race to process and beneficiate minerals? And if Africa's next generation of discoveries doesn't materialise, could the continent's industrial ambitions run ahead of its resource pipeline?