Driving sustainable investment in African Mining

Willis Thomas

Principal Consultant CRU Group

Willis is responsible for the CRU team delivering CRU Bespoke Services and CRU Special Reports. Bespoke Services provides custom data and reports, which fall outside of Insights or Strategy offerings, while Special Reports are singular market reports on topics across metals, mining and fertilizers. Willis joined CRU Strategy in February 2017 with more than five years of experience in metals sales, production and procurement activities. Before moving to his current role, Willis spent six years in consulting for CRU Strategy, covering mainly critical minor minerals (vanadium, rare earths, germanium, gallium, high-purity quartz, borates, antimony, niobium, etc.), ferroalloys (chrome, manganese, silicon) and base metals (tin, zinc, aluminium), as well as across fertilizer markets for nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and sulphur.


2026 Agenda Sessions

Commodity outlook 2026 keynote presented by CRU

Keynote by a leading expert in the field presenting their annual commodity outlook report exclusively at Mining Indaba. Explore short and long-term forecasts for commodity markets.

Monday 09 February 11:05 - 11:35 River Nile Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Investment Village)

Add to calendar 02/09/2026 11:05 02/09/2026 11:35 Commodity outlook 2026 keynote presented by CRU

Keynote by a leading expert in the field presenting their annual commodity outlook report exclusively at Mining Indaba. Explore short and long-term forecasts for commodity markets.

River Nile Stage (CTICC1 - Ground Floor - Investment Village) Africa/Johannesburg