As demand for critical minerals continues to grow, Mining Indaba 2027 offers downstream industries direct access to mining companies, government leaders and investment partners across Africa. Discover future supply opportunities, understand the evolving policy and infrastructure landscape, and build the partnerships needed for a more secure and sustainable supply chain.
The comprehensive conference agenda addresses key trends, challenges, and opportunities that are shaping the African mining industry. Attending the event enables downstream buyers to acquire valuable market insights, industry intelligence, and regulatory updates crucial for informing business strategies and decision-making processes.
In 2027, the content theme “Stronger Together: Partnerships in Practice” adds deeper value by highlighting the importance of collaboration across the mining ecosystem.
Building relationships and forging partnerships with the African mining industry is essential for supply chain growth. Downstream buyers can engage in networking, identify potential clients and projects, and explore collaborations with mining companies, investors, government, and other industry stakeholders.
At Mining Indaba 2026, the theme of Sustainability in Mining focused on responsible sourcing and ethical supply chains. Downstream buyers are set to gain insight into efforts to protect ecosystems, uphold labour standards, and ensure traceability.
Discover how partnering with African governments and producers can support local value-add, downstream processing, and co-investment in regional manufacturing hubs.
Mining Indaba brings together the largest gathering of mining companies from emerging juniors to established mid-tiers and diversified majors with African and international assets. This is an opportunity to negotiate long-term agreements, validate ESG-compliant and conflict-free sources, ensure resilient supply chains and gain end-to-end transparency across the value chain to meet global regulatory and consumer expectations.
Through interactive workshops, downstream buyers can engage in interactive dialogues with industry peers and key mining stakeholders to collaborate on best practise and standardisation that will support the sectors to find productive and meaningful ways to work together.
Downstream Buyers Seeking Responsible Supply, Strategic Partnerships, and Long-Term Resilience
If you're a manufacturer, smelter, refiner, or part of the aerospace, defence, electronics, steel, or industrial sectors, Mining Indaba 2027 is your opportunity to secure critical minerals, forge strategic partnerships, and strengthen your supply chain. Under the theme "Stronger Together: Progress Through Partnerships," the event connects downstream buyers directly with Africa's resource base, from diversified majors to mid-tiers and emerging juniors.
Select this ticket if your organisation purchases, processes/beneficiates, refines/smelts, trades, or uses mined commodities as inputs into manufacturing and/or industrial production.
This category is intended for companies operating on the demand side of the mining value chain, including commodity traders, smelters, refiners, processors, and industrial end users across sectors such as automotive, battery and energy technologies, electronics, aerospace, construction, steel, chemicals and advanced manufacturing.
Registrations are subject to a qualification process before approval.
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