Mining

Ethiopia signed $4.2B in new mining deals in March 2026. Who buys gold, iron-ore, and potash processing equipment, and how deals get paid.

KEFI's Tulu Kapi gold project has over 50% of its process-plant equipment already ordered. Here is how that plant, and the next one, gets into Ethiopia.

Ethiopia exempts mining capital equipment from duty, but a SAG or ball mill order still clears through a birr LC near 162 to the dollar. The path, mapped.

ZYTB DIM's March 2026 license is Ethiopia's first commercial iron ore project, targeting 2 million tonnes a year. The beneficiation line is still open.

Two Danakil potash licenses target hundreds of thousands of tonnes a year, but neither project has named an EPCM contractor or locked a vendor list yet.

Zambian mines spec 750-2,000 kVA diesel gensets for critical loads after 2024's 20-hour load shedding. New, used, modular options explained.

Zambia treats crushed-stone quarrying as mining, so plant can clear at 0% duty like Lumwana's $2B expansion gear. The import path, mapped.

Chambishi, Mopani and KCM smelters reline refractory on recurring MRO cycles, not one-off capex. HS codes, FX/LC and freight into landlocked Zambia.

A 2025 order now forces every Zambian mineral-processing plant to fix tailings water management. Who buys effluent equipment, and how to quote it.

A Feb 2025 dam failure near Chambishi tightened Zambia's TSF rules. Buyers now source used and modular filter presses, thickeners, and pumps fast.

Zambia mined 890,346 t of copper in 2025 and targets 3 Mt by 2031. Who buys SAG mills, SX-EW plants, LHDs and smelter refractory, and how deals get paid.

Zambia's $361M Sino Great phosphate complex is 30% built; equipment procurement is only 20% done. The beneficiation scope, buyers and financing terms.

Barrick's Lumwana mine runs a 70 ML/day water skid; Zambia has no seawater. The RO skid buyer's guide for mines and pharma water.

Barrick and First Quantum are scaling Zambian grinding circuits toward roughly 50 Mtpa. How a SAG mill order gets specified, bid, and paid for.

Moxico's Mimbula mine scales to 56,000 t/y of copper cathode by mid-2026. Who buys Zambia's SX-EW plants, what they cost, and how RFQs get won.

Chambishi's Phase 1 smelter makes 400,000 t/y of acid that Zambia's own SX-EW plants consume. Who supplies acid-plant equipment, and how RFQs get won.

Epiroc booked a $20M loader and hauler order from Mopani in Q1 2026. Here's who buys LHD loaders in Zambia and how deals close.

Uganda's nine licensed refineries sit behind $5.21B in annual gold exports. Who buys melting furnaces, electrolytic cells, and assay kit.

Uganda's Kilembe revival holds 6.5M tonnes at 1.77% copper. Border charges, freight to Kasese, and the flowsheet caveat SX-EW suppliers should check.

Orom-Cross cleared its DFS in Dec 2025: $1.09B NPV on a $40M phase one. Who buys flotation circuits in Uganda, what the ores demand, how deals get paid.

Uganda exported $5.21B of gold in the year to Oct 2025. Nine refineries, a new 5,000 t/d mine, and a national lab drive assay equipment demand.

Wagagai's 5,000 t/d CIL plant went live in Aug 2025 with $100M of its $250M build still to come. Who buys gold leach kit in Uganda and how to reach them.

Uganda's gold exports hit $5.21B in the year to Oct 2025. Who buys CIL plants, refinery lines, copper SX-EW kit, and flotation circuits in Uganda.

Shanta Gold's 915,000 tpa West Kenya plant anchors a US$170-208M build. Who supplies gold CIL circuits into Kenya and how the orders get paid.

Kenya was the world's fourth rutile producer in 2024. Importing a mineral separation plant costs 4.5% on CIF before 16% VAT. Here is the route.

Kenya's mining output grew 14.9% to KSh 141.7B in 2025. Where gold, soda ash, and mineral-sands equipment RFQs come from and how they get paid.

Kenya has two live ore comminution scopes: a 915,000 tpa gold plant and a Sh3.61bn trona-crushing upgrade. Specs, vendors, and landed cost.

Kenya's only soda ash producer is tripling Lake Magadi output from 300,000 to 1m tonnes. Here's the equipment scope and who supplies each package.

Senegal declared CFA 502bn in gold exports in 2024. A logistics-first import guide for CIL, BIOX, mill and leach-plant equipment.

Senegal's Grande Cote plant was built for about US$650M. Here is how to budget spirals, magnetic and electrostatic separation for a Senegal RFQ.

Sabodala-Massawa poured 273,533 oz of gold in 2025, all of it hauled by imported trucks. Where the haul-truck RFQs sit in Senegal, new and rebuilt.

Senegal's only BIOX plant cost $290m and runs seven bio-oxidation reactors. Here is where the refractory-gold equipment RFQs actually sit.

Sabodala-Massawa poured 274,000 ounces of gold in 2025. Here is where Senegal's mining equipment RFQs sit, who signs them, and how to win them.

Senegal declared CFA 502bn in gold exports in 2024. Here is where the equipment RFQs sit across gold plants, BIOX, and mineral sands.

Ghana's gold output hit 5.94 million ounces in 2025. How crushing and milling circuit suppliers reach Newmont, Gold Fields, and Cardinal Namdini buyers.

Ghana earned $11.6B from gold exports in 2024 and is Africa's #1 gold producer. How equipment suppliers reach Newmont, Gold Fields, and GoldBod buyers.

Ghana poured 5.94 million ounces of gold in 2025. Here is how to scope and win a tailings storage and cyanide destruction package for its mines.

Newmont's Akyem RO plant treats 75 litres a second. Where Ghana's mines, refineries, and plants buy industrial water treatment, used or modular.

Ghana's gold sector earned USD 20B in export revenue in 2025. Here is how grinding-circuit suppliers reach Newmont, Gold Fields, and Cardinal Namdini buyers.

Tanzania imports over 90% of its fertilizer and used 800,000 tons in 2024. How to import a bulk-blending (BB/NPK) plant through Dar or Tanga.

Kabanga's 3.4 Mtpa flotation concentrator and Mahenge's 340,000 tpa graphite plant anchor Tanzania's imported flotation equipment demand.

Tanzania's gold exports hit a record $4.7B in 2025. Here's how to buy modular and used mine-water treatment plants for gold, nickel, and graphite sites.

Overland conveyors hold 41.9% of the USD 1.95B mining conveyor market. Here is who buys troughed belt, pipe, and stacker systems in Namibia.

How foreign equipment vendors win Namibia's critical minerals procurement: uranium #3 global, lithium, REE, copper, zinc, diamonds, plus FX and LC mechanics.

Husab alone runs 26 ultra-class 327-tonne electric-drive haul trucks. A project guide to fleet sizing, trolley-assist, and parts support in Namibia.

Husab mine alone consumes 9 million cubic metres of water a year. The industrial water treatment procurement map for foreign suppliers to Namibia.

Namibia's mining sector lifted fixed investment 31% to N$7.46B in 2025. How equipment buyers get on vendor lists, secure dealer support, and finance kit.

Namibia produced 2.08M carats of diamonds in 2025 and imports ~$749M of machinery a year. Where the mining RFQs sit and who issues them.

Tschudi runs a 17,000 t/yr SX-EW copper cathode plant, the only one in Namibia. The flowsheet, the buyers, and how to budget a leach plant project.

Namibia produced 7,333 tU in 2024, the world's #3. Here is where the uranium hydromet plant RFQs sit: leach, CCD, SX/IX, yellowcake.

Rossing dispatches U3O8 in 450 kg drums at +98.5% purity. Here is where Namibia's yellowcake drying, calcining, and drum-packing RFQs sit.

Kabanga's hydromet refinery sits behind a $1.58B NPV nickel build heading to FID in 2026. What refinery equipment suppliers need to know to win the RFQ.

Tanzania's gold exports hit a record $4.7B in 2025. A procurement guide to sourcing a turnkey carbon-in-leach gold plant, from FID to gold room.

Mahenge launched in Oct 2025 at up to 340,000 tpa with POSCO offtake. How to procure a greenfield graphite flotation circuit in Tanzania.

Barrick alone put $558M into its Tanzanian mines in H1 2025. How greenfield projects buy excavators, drill rigs, and crushers, and who issues the RFQ.

Mining hit 11.9% of Tanzania's GDP and gold sales reached $4.75B in 2025. How equipment suppliers reach mining and fertiliser RFQs across Tanzania.

B2Gold's Antelope underground mine needs ~$105M of capital and 3.5km of decline. Here is where Namibia's underground equipment RFQs sit.

Namibia mined 7,333 tU in 2024, roughly 10% of world output. Here is where the uranium ion exchange resin and CIX contactor RFQs sit.

Tanzania's $1.2B Mkuju River uranium project ran its pilot plant from July 2025, main build from Q1 2026. How modular processing-skid suppliers win the RFQ.

Egypt's mineral revenues jumped 131% in FY24/25 and the 2026 law cut state stakes to 10%. The buyer map foreign mining-equipment suppliers need.

OCP commits USD 14B in 2025-2027 phosphate capex and holds ~70% of world reserves. How equipment suppliers win Morocco mining RFQs.

OCP is adding three 1Mt/yr granulation units at Jorf Lasfar by 2027. What suppliers of NPK granulators and prilling towers need to win the RFQ.

OCP's USD 14B capex and Benguerir's tripling output drive Morocco's crusher and beneficiation RFQs. How foreign suppliers win the mine-face spend.

OCP commits USD 14B in 2025-2027 phosphate capex. The reactor trains, filters, and evaporators that win Morocco phosphoric acid plant RFQs.

Egypt's Abu Tartour phosphoric-acid complex carries a $658M budget. An indicative cost guide to the beneficiation plant upstream of it, and who is buying.

Nigeria pulled in $1.3B of mineral processing investment since 2023. Here is how flotation circuit suppliers win lead-zinc, gold, and lithium RFQs.

Nigeria's central bank has built $3.5B in gold reserves from locally refined bullion. Here is how refining equipment suppliers win the RFQs behind it.

Importing an acid mine drainage treatment plant into South Africa: 15% VAT, FX and LC mechanics, customs, freight, and install for a 400 ML/day market.

South Africa's underground mining equipment segment is growing 8.61% a year. Here is how to land an LHD or drill rig on FX, customs, and freight.

Dangote's $585m Itori line and BUA's 20 MTA push run on captive limestone quarries. A 2026 procurement guide to drilling, crushing, and haulage fleets.

Nigeria's value-addition rules now force lithium to be processed onshore. A project guide to plant equipment, scope, and greenfield procurement.

Choosing assay lab equipment for Nigeria: XRF vs fire assay vs ICP, sample prep, ISO 17025 accreditation, and how to pick a supplier.

Nigeria attracted $1.3B in lithium processing investment since 2023. Here is how foreign equipment suppliers win mining and minerals RFQs.

South Africa's mining equipment market hit USD 1.27B in 2025. Here is how to source flotation, lime, and flocculant dosing skids and win the RFQ.

South Africa's mining truck market hits USD 185.7M in 2025. Here is how to source rigid dump trucks, who supplies them, and how to get a quote.

South Africa's mineral processing equipment market hits USD 624M in 2025. Here is how to source a SAG mill, who supplies it, and how to get a quote.

Transnet's Richards Bay dry bulk terminal alone targets a jump from 18.5 to 26.9 Mtpa. Here's the conveyor buyer's map for South Africa.

Gold hit a record US$3,431/oz average in 2025. Here is the greenfield procurement path for a CIL processing train in South Africa, step by step.

South Africa's mineral processing equipment market hits USD 624M in 2025, with flotation cells the fastest-growing line. Specs, suppliers, and pricing.

South Africa's mining equipment market hits USD 1.27B in 2025. Here is the buyer map foreign OEMs need to quote PGM, gold, coal, and iron ore RFQs.

South Africa's heavy-machinery imports rose 17.8% to USD 1.1B in 2025. Spec, supplier shortlist, and indicative pricing for mobile crushing plants.

Sourcing a TBM for a South African water, mine, or metro tunnel? Here are the 6 procurement steps, the OEM shortlist, and the FX and LC mechanics.

South Africa's mineral processing equipment market hits USD 624M in 2025, with dry-stack retrofits driving filter press demand. Here is how to source it.

How foreign equipment vendors win Botswana's copper and cobalt procurement: Kalahari Copper Belt mines, FX and LC mechanics, tender platforms, and where to enter.

How foreign suppliers win Botswana's diamond procurement: mine equipment, XRT sorting, Sarine beneficiation, BWP basket-pegged LCs, Debswana SAP Ariba.

Burkina Faso runs a gold-led industrial base with a EUR-pegged CFA franc. Here is how foreign suppliers approach RFQs across mining, energy, cement and cotton.

How foreign suppliers procure into the Democratic Republic of the Congo: copper-cobalt belt RFQs, Lobito Corridor logistics, Inga 3 USD 1B program, FX and LC mechanics.

Eritrea's mining-led economy, Bisha and Colluli mega-mines, Massawa-Assab port logistics, and a fixed Nakfa shape every RFQ a foreign supplier sees.

Gabon's USD 21B economy runs 50% on industry. How foreign suppliers win RFQs into Comilog Moanda, Belinga, Cap Lopez LNG, Setrag, and the Nkok SEZ.

Procurement landscape into Guinea: GDP 5.7% in 2024, 73% of global seaborne bauxite, Simandou first shipment Dec 2025, and GNF FX mechanics for foreign suppliers.

How foreign suppliers win Lesotho diamond procurement: mine equipment at 3,100 m, DMS plants, XRT sorting, Loti-ZAR FX, Letseng and Liqhobong RFQ access.

Sierra Leone procurement guide for foreign suppliers: 4.4% GDP growth, USD 750M Bumbuna II, USD 180M WASH programme, MACCEM cement plant.

Zambia drew USD 6.7B FDI in 2024, Africa's largest jump. How foreign suppliers win RFQs into Sentinel, Lumwana, Mopani, KCM, and the Lobito Corridor.