With mining seeing a more sustained improvement in many Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries, fortune will favour those miners and supply partners with experience on the ground, writes Ralf Hennecke, BME MD for SADC. I t has been an encouraging few months for mining in the region. While the annual growth figures for March and April this year were expected - as they were off a low base from the Covid-19 lockdowns last year - the positive trend has continued from June. Strong commodities include iron ore, platinum group metals, gold, manganese, copper, and cobalt, benefitting the economies especially of South Africa and Zambia, improving prospects for diamonds, uranium and coal also make for some optimism in countries like Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. In the longer term, there is a hopeful outlook for platinum and other minerals in Zimbabwe.
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