1、1 Africas Mineral Endowment2 Mineral Value Chains in Practice:The Infrastructure Imperative3 Regional Overviews 4 Compendium of Strategic MineralsCompendium of Africas Strategic Minerals2026TABLE OF CONTENTS1 Foreword2 Executive Summary5 Acknowledgements7 What Minerals Are Strategic to Africa?13 An

2、US$8.6 Trillion Untapped Mineral Base14 From Endowment to Opportunity:Sorting Africas Mineral Assets by Investment Readiness17 Railways Must Evolve from Pit-to-Port Assets to Integration Backbones19 Ports Are a Critical Node of New Regional Industrial Ecosystems20 Industrial Zones as Anchors of Loca

3、lised Mineral Clusters21 Energy Remains a Binding Constraint on Africas Minerals Value Chains22 Map:Africas Baseload Power Plants24 North Africa:Industrial Platforms,Phosphate Strength and a Frontier in Green Industrialisation26 West Africa:Fragmented Markets,Strong Gold Foundations and the Case for

4、 Regional Industrial Aggregation28 East Africa:Africas Strongest Upside?30 Central Africa:Giant Endowments,Minimal Integration and the Case for Shared Infrastructure32 Southern Africa:Rebuilding Industrial Depth Around New Mineral Economies35 Key Take-Aways:Our Value Chain Disconnection Matrix39 Iro

5、n and Ferro-Alloy Metals54 Non-Ferrous Metals 66 Industrial Minerals73 Precious Metals79 Mineral Fuels81 Appendix 1:Review of Africas Minerals Endowment and Minerals Exploration Trends85 Appendix 2:Case Study:AI in Geological Data Processing:Early Lessons from Africa86 Appendix 3:Data Coverage and M

6、ethodological Basis:The MinEx Database87 Appendix 4:Data Coverage and Methodological Basis:The Compendium of Africas Strategic Minerals1 2 3 4 AFRICAS MINERAL ENDOWMENTMINERAL VALUE CHAINS IN PRACTICE:THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPERATIVEREGIONAL OVERVIEWS COMPENDIUM OF STRATEGIC MINERALSin association with