Name: Mining Indaba
Start: 2026-02-09T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-02-12T15:30:00+02:00
Location: CTICC

Chris Showalter

CEO Lifezone Metals

Chris Showalter contributes an accomplished corporate finance and merchant banking background to the Lifezone team. Uniquely, Chris brings a Wall Street career combined with extensive experience on the ground in Africa. Chris has a core expertise originating, sourcing and developing relationships and transactions across Africa, having held the role as Director and Partner at merchant bank Hannam & Partners in Zimbabwe, where he focused on the African mining sector. Chris led Lifezone Metals acquisition of the Kabanga Nickel project and is an integral part of the ongoing negotiations and development of relations with the Government of Tanzania. Over six years in Zimbabwe, he developed specific expertise in the platinum sector and advised a number of platinum mining companies on their current operations and future expansion potential, after relocating to the country as co-CEO of Renaissance Capital.

2026 Agenda Sessions

Critical minerals investment in a post “tariff” world.

Since the beginning of the year, the term ‘tariff’ has sparked significant concern across the critical materials sector. Tariffs have completely changed the way international trade is conducted, upending many multi-decade long partnerships and re-writing how global trade is conducted. What has this done to the African critical minerals market, and can it be a positive?

Wednesday 11 February 15:20 - 16:05 Ngorongoro Crater Stage (CTICC1 - Level 2)