Africa Mining Review 2025

GlobalData's "Africa Mining Review - 2025" provides an in-depth analysis of the mining sector across key African markets. The report offers comprehensive coverage of macroeconomic trends and commodity price movements impacting the region. It provides historical and forecast data on various commodities. It highlights major mining markets including South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe, Guinea, and Ghana, as well as emerging markets such as Mozambique, Tanzania, Mali, and Zambia.

The study examines a wide range of commodities, including cobalt, platinum, manganese, chromium, diamond, bauxite, gold, copper, and uranium, detailing production and project developments. It also reviews operational environments, investment trends, and infrastructure challenges, supported by a detailed appendix.

Africa is one of the world leading mining regions, endowed with abundant reserves. According to the U.S Geological Survey (USGS), Africa accounted for 79.3% of total PGM reserves in 2025, 61.7% of chromium reserves, and substantial shares of reserves of cobalt (54.5%), manganese (36.5%), diamonds (32.4%), bauxite (25.5%), copper (8.2%), gold (7.8%) and lithium (1.6%), among others. Despite its resource wealth, the industry faces persistent challenges, including infrastructure gaps, policy uncertainty, and rising operational costs. Geopolitical shifts also add pressure, for instance, in 2025, the US imposed a 50% tariff copper imports, effective August 1, directly affecting African exporters such as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Africa is a dominant force in the production of platinum, cobalt, manganese, diamonds and chromium, accounting for 80.3%, 76.1%, 65.5%, 49.3% and 45.5% respectively of global output in 2024. It also holds significant positions in the production of bauxite (32.6%), gold (19.7%), copper (17%), uranium (14%), lithium (10.9%), and graphite (7.4%).

Scope

• The report contains an overview of the West African gold mining industry including key macroeconomic trends, commodity price, and operating environment across major and emerging mining markets. It provides detailed information on production by country, competitive landscape, major operating mines, major exploration, and development projects.

Reasons to Buy

• To gain an understanding of the African mining industry
• To understand historical and forecast trend on cobalt, platinum, manganese, chromium, diamond, bauxite, gold, copper, and uranium production across key African countries
• To identify key players in the African mining industry
• To identify major active, exploration and development projects in Africa