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LUSAKA — Mining companies in Zambia are calling on the government to introduce new tax incentives, expand greenfield exploration, and address severe power shortages as Africa’s second-largest copper producer targets a near-tripling of its annual output. The demands come ahead of the country’s general election, where more than 8 million …

Now in its thirteenth year as Africa’s premier investment conference, AFSIC 2026 agenda has been unveiled. Scheduled mid-October at the Park Plaza Westminster, London, this year’s programme is the most comprehensive in the conference’s history, spanning critical industry sectors, drawing an exceptional calibre of investors, and backed by unprecedented sponsor …

Zambia’s mining sector edged into growth territory in the first half of 2026, according to the Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, though the numbers reveal a story of uneven gains rather than a uniform boom. Aggregate copper production rose by 0.45%, climbing from 445,175 metric tonnes in the first …

Zambia’s commercial and industrial energy users are operating in a more complex power environment shaped by rising demand, grid constraints, changing market rules and pressure to secure reliable, affordable electricity. For manufacturers, mines and other large energy users, the challenge is no longer simply whether to diversify their energy supply. …

Patriot Resources is rapidly shifting its Zambian foothold from a single discovery into a broader corridor-scale copper play, extending the prospective footprint of its Tonic discovery to 5.5 kilometres and defining two new drill-ready targets along the highly prospective Mumbwa-Kitumba trend. Recent ground magnetics and induced polarisation surveys have expanded …

SKF South Africa’s Application Engineering Services cover a wide suite of solutions including installation, lubrication systems, condition monitoring and bearing remanufacturing. At the core of the company’s Application Engineering strategy is a commitment to move beyond the development and installation of housings, bearings and sealing systems by integrating reliability services …

Across Africa’s mineral belts from Zambia’s bustling copper heartlands to Ghana’s gold fields the legacy bargain between host states and foreign mining conglomerates is unraveling. Governments are no longer content with serving merely as raw material exporters in a “pit-to-port” model. Instead, as the global energy transition elevates copper, gold, …

Zambia has signed contracts with five contractor consortiums to build 312MW of solar capacity spread across all 156 parliamentary constituencies, marking one of the most geographically ambitious power rollouts the country has attempted and one designed to solve two problems at once: chronic electricity shortages and stalled irrigation-driven agriculture. The …

Prospect Resources’ latest update on the ongoing Phase 3 diamond drilling programme for the Nyungu Central deposit has indicated new intersections lie outside the existing Mineral Resource estimate (MRE) outline and are still open to the southeast. According to Prospect’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Sam Hosack, despite the …

Lifting Africa is proud to announce Ground Mobility Systems as the Official Ground Mobility Solutions Sponsor of the Forklift Driver Competition, taking place at Electra Mining Africa 2026 from 7–11 September 2026 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre, Nasrec. As one of South Africa’s leading providers of heavy-duty ground mobility, aluminium …