Calisto Radithipa
CCO Kemcore Africa
Calisto Radithipa is the Founder of Kemcore and Chief Commercial Officer of Kemcore Africa, a mining chemicals and logistics business serving copper and cobalt operations across Southern Africa. He entered the sector through cross-border sourcing and built Kemcore into a supplier to mines in Zambia and the DRC by combining technical product knowledge with speed of execution, dependable delivery, and on-the-ground customer support. Over time, Calisto expanded from trading into local manufacturing and project development. He invested in industrial production in Zambia, building operational experience in commissioning, reliability, and market development—along with the realities of power constraints and supply-chain risk. Today, his focus is scaling resilient regional supply chains for mining and industrial inputs, and developing new production capacity closer to end-users to reduce cost, lead time, and import dependence. He brings a practical operator’s perspective on what it takes to move from policy ambition to bankable, executable industrial projects.
2026 Agenda Sessions
Critical Mineral Ecosystems: A New Model for Raw Material Supply Security
This workshop introduces Critical Mineral Ecosystems (CMEs) as a new, coordinated model to secure raw materials needed for clean energy, mobility, and digital industries amid soaring demand and fragmented global supply. CMEs address core system-level challenges—misaligned price signals, scale coordination, capital constraints, legal fragmentation, and ESG inconsistencies—by orchestrating companies, governments, and investors under shared rules and risk-mitigation tools such as pooled offtake and volatility management. Inspired by models like H2Global, CMEs aim to accelerate project bankability, provide buyers with stable and traceable ESG-compliant supply, and enable producing nations to capture fair value.
Join us at Mining Indaba 2026 to explore how this shift from competition to coordination can redefine mineral supply security.
Tuesday 10 February 09:00 - 11:00 Okavango Delta Stage (CTICC2 - Level 1)
This workshop introduces Critical Mineral Ecosystems (CMEs) as a new, coordinated model to secure raw materials needed for clean energy, mobility, and digital industries amid soaring demand and fragmented global supply. CMEs address core system-level challenges—misaligned price signals, scale coordination, capital constraints, legal fragmentation, and ESG inconsistencies—by orchestrating companies, governments, and investors under shared rules and risk-mitigation tools such as pooled offtake and volatility management. Inspired by models like H2Global, CMEs aim to accelerate project bankability, provide buyers with stable and traceable ESG-compliant supply, and enable producing nations to capture fair value.
Join us at Mining Indaba 2026 to explore how this shift from competition to coordination can redefine mineral supply security.
Okavango Delta Stage (CTICC2 - Level 1) Africa/JohannesburgRegional collaboration vs. resource nationalism for battery mineral value addition - introducing the
Wednesday 11 February 09:00 - 11:00 Kilimanjaro Stage (CTICC2 - Level 2)
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