A study facility to develop a roadmap on Nigeria’s critical value chain from extraction to beneficiation to be funded by the Global Council for Critical Minerals is one of the low hanging fruits secured by Solid Minerals Development Minister Dr. Dele Alake on the sidelines of the ongoing annual Mining Indaba holding in Cape Town, South Africa. The Global Council …

Nigeria and France have agreed to develop joint projects to promote and diversify the critical minerals value chain in the solid minerals sector of both countries. Critical minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, and rare earth elements are essential to clean energy technologies. In the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by both countries on the sidelines of the official visit to …