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Stavros Nicolaou, board member at Business Unity South Africa, on market diversification, critical minerals beneficiation and regional industrialisation.
‘We don’t believe there should be a condition on the granting of mining rights attached to it; mining is sector-distinct from beneficiation, which essentially is manufacturing’ – Mzila Mthenjane, CEO of Minerals Council SA.
‘We’ve become important because countries are moving from fossil fuels; the other part is that AI is often discussed as ‘a software’, but AI is actually mineral-intensive’ – Dr Lebohang Pheko, senior research fellow, Trade Collective.
Thapelo Moamogoe, Executive Head of Metals & Mining at Standard Bank CIB discusses the upcoming Mining Indaba, themes we can expect to see, and the importance of the critical minerals conversation.