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LONDON INDABA TALKS“ INVESTING IN RESOURCES AND MINING IN AFRICA” IN JUNE
Ronak Gopaldas, director, Signal Risk, will analyse geopolitics and the new world order and their potential impact on the mining value chain.
‘ Future facing’ African resources Mark Cutifani, chair, Vale Base Metals, will share with us his views on why Africa is important to‘ future facing’ metals and minerals.
African ambassadors will debate whether Africa is ready to be part of mining for critical metals and minerals in a discussion led by Christopher Vandome, Senior Research Fellow, Africa programme, Chatham House, with H. E. Aly Diallo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenciary of the Republic of Guinea to the UK.
Gold Gold continues to reach remarkable heights in these unprecedented times and gold mining CEOs Mike Fraser of Gold Fields and Beyers Nel of Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd together with Neal Froneman, chair, World Gold Council will explore what’ s next.
The third edition London Indaba will take place on 24 and 25 June 2025 at the InterContinental Park Lane London.
The event will bring together senior level representatives from multiple stakeholders including governments, mining houses, financial and investment institutions, as well as legal and advisory experts to discuss the centrality of Africa in the race for future facing minerals and metals. Discussion at the event promises to cover the critical role African countries must play in providing many of the minerals and metals the world needs for the future and the all-important question of where investment and collaborations will come from and what international stakeholders are looking for when investing in and partnering with African mining companies and jurisdictions.
Geopolitical complexities Navigating choppy waters and geopolitical complexities is just one of the many issues that will be discussed this year by Dr Fiona Perrott-Humphrey, senior adviser, Mining Team, Global Advisory, Rothschild & Co. London in conversation with: Dominic Barton, chair, Rio Tinto and chair, LeapFrog Investments Gregory Boyce, chair, Newmont Mining; Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, chair, Endeavour Mining Kalidas Madhavpeddi, chair, Glencore and Guy-Robert Lukama, president, Gécamines.
Peter Leon, partner and Africa chair, Herbert Smith Freehills, will chair a discussion on the influence of geopolitical realities on governments ' policies concerning critical minerals in Africa, with Cecile Tassin-Pelzer, adviser, DG International Partnerships, European Commission.
Copper With rising demand and supply constraints, copper prices are expected to remain strong. Find out more about copper’ s essential role in the global energy transition, with Paul Gait, group head of Strategy, Anglo American; Marna Cloete, CEO, Ivanhoe Mines; Chris Griffith, CEO, Vedanta Base Metals; Nicolas Treand, CEO, ERG Africa and Tristan Pascall, CEO, First Quantum Minerals Ltd.
PGMs Craig Miller, CEO, Anglo American Platinum, will discuss whether PGMs have a long-term future.
Operations: balancing demands, trade-offs Gillian Doran, CFO and executive director, AngloGold Ashanti and Boipelo Lekubo, CFO, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited will tackle balancing conflicting demands and competing trade-offs; while Rohitesh Dhawan, president and CEO, ICMM will give an address on how to ensure responsible mining practices.
Exploration The role of junior miners in realising the potential of critical minerals will be discussed by Gervais Williams, head of Equities, Premier Miton, Michael Wrotniak, Orion Resource Partners and Heye Daun, president and CEO, Koryx Copper.
Mining investors will discuss which commodity, country and region they are investing in and why, with George Cheveley, portfolio manager, NinetyOne and Charl Malan, senior metals and mining analyst, VanEck( New York). •
For more information go to www. londonindaba. com. Source: supplied by Resources 4 Africa
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