Metals Focus on Copper, Cobalt & Nickel: Price volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, production rates, and the opportunity for Africa

Copper, cobalt and nickel – arguably, three of the most valuable minerals in the sector – needed to drive the planet’s sustainability revolution. While Africa has an abundance of these minerals, can it play a truly meaningful role in meeting the planet’s growing demand while Africa’s political instability and lack of transparency remain major concerns for most global investors and end users? This session will explore just how Africa can emerge as a major mining investment hot spot for new tech minerals project developments.

Key points:

- Understanding Africa’s production potential, and how it can accelerate into the global market?

- Exploring how political risk could impact Africa’s ability to meet growing demand, or not

- The approaching recession – could this drive down prices and affect Africa’s tech minerals development potential?

- The Democratic Republic of Congo – what exactly is this country’s potential by comparison with regional copper/cobalt producing peers and continents?

- Beneficiation - how can Africa control the supply chain and increase product margin?

- Challenges – what else is impacting Africa’s potential to deliver growing demand? Solutions – what is needed to see Africa’s true potential within the sector emerge?

Monday 06 February 15:20 - 16:10 Main Stage

Main Stage

Add to calendar 02/06/2023 15:20 02/06/2023 16:10 Metals Focus on Copper, Cobalt & Nickel: Price volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, production rates, and the opportunity for Africa Copper, cobalt and nickel – arguably, three of the most valuable minerals in the sector – needed to drive the planet’s sustainability revolution. While Africa has an abundance of these minerals, can it play a truly meaningful role in meeting the planet’s growing demand while Africa’s political instability and lack of transparency remain major concerns for most global investors and end users? This session will explore just how Africa can emerge as a major mining investment hot spot for new tech minerals project developments. Main Stage Europe/London