Namibia Critical Minerals: Procurement Landscape
How foreign equipment vendors win Namibia's critical minerals procurement: uranium #3 global, lithium, REE, copper, zinc, diamonds, plus FX and LC mechanics.
May 2026 24 min read
How foreign equipment vendors win Namibia's critical minerals procurement: uranium #3 global, lithium, REE, copper, zinc, diamonds, plus FX and LC mechanics.
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.
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.
Rossing dispatches U3O8 in 450 kg drums at +98.5% purity. Here is where Namibia's yellowcake drying, calcining, and drum-packing RFQs sit.
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.