GRACELIN BASKARAN: Africa is central to Saudi Arabia’s mining ambitions
The country is deploying significant amounts of capital and fostering unprecedented levels of co-operation in the critical minerals space
11 January 2024 - 05:00
Much of my understanding of the mining sector began in Rustenburg. I was an American girl living there in my twenties for two years. They called me CNN for an entire year, because it was the only place they had heard my accent that wasn’t on the US broadcast network on television at Virgin Active.
That time also gave me a deep understanding of the different dimensions of platinum mining — geologically, commercially, socially, economically and politically. I later wrote a PhD thesis on it...
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