There is something about “uranium” that connotes a rare — and even foreboding — substance, at least partly because of the way the word...
1. Angola was colonised for nearly 500 years
Portuguese explorers first reached Angola in 1484. Luanda, which is today the capital of Angola, was established...
Liberia is Africa’s oldest independent republic
The American Colonization Society founded Liberia as a haven for freed slaves who wanted to return to...
You can see, and hear a mining operation from far away. Everything about them is monumental: from the vast tipper trucks and shovels of...
Mining is not an industry that is known for its abundance of female staff. Globally, the industry has a female workforce of just 5-10%...
Renewable power technology is, essentially, enabled by copper. The world simply cannot successfully transition to fossil fuel alternatives without it.
Discover exactly how dependent a...
This striking graph confirms what Zambians may have suspected, both intuitively and through personal experience – it’s mining that is the main driver of...
An easily understood feature of corporate taxation is that you only tax a business once it is making a profit. But what do you...
You may think of tin as a humble metal, and you aren’t alone. Tin is often overlooked, but the element is certainly not without...
In a world of diminishing, non-renewable resources, we as consumers of those resources have responsibilities, too. Instead of following the traditional “take-make-dispose” approach to...
