1、MACIGMINING IN AFRICA COUNTRY INVESTMENT GUIDE2023GLOBA L BUSINES S REP ORT SWe are very pleased to present to you the 2023 MACIG edition,a book that,every year since 2014,has sought to honor its name as the“Mining in Africa Country Investment Guide”by providing its readers with the most complete ov

2、erview of mining in the continent.We think we achieved this goal once again with this years report.Covering one of the most complex mining jurisdictions in the world with at least 20 relevant countries,some of which are larger and more regionally di-verse than many other nations in the world,and hos

3、ting almost every imagin-able resource on earth is never an easy task.This year,we interviewed over 130 executives in 28 African countries,of which 20 producers,40 juniors,and about 50 service providers serving every part of the value chain(EPCs,labs,power,equipment,blasting,logistics,technology,leg

4、al,HR,and consultancies),as well as governments and financial institutions.And yet,as many explorers say in the industry about the untapped upside potential at their properties,we are still“only just scraping the surface.”This 70,000-or-so word-report is still a summary of the incredibly vast and re

5、sourceful industry,but it is also the most compre-hensive book dedicated to the mining industry in Africa,even after applying the rigors of the word“comprehensive,”which cannot be used too freely.To help our readers understand the dynamics specific to the continent,but also to different regions,coun

6、tries,and communities,tied into global trends,MACIG 2023 is structured across four regions(West Africa,Southern Africa,Central Af-rica,and East Africa),and across seven commodity classes(precious metals,base metals,battery metals,graphite,rare earths,uranium,and coal).By map-ping out the African min