Women In Mining Seek Stronger African Participation In Global Minerals Pricing

The executive director of Women in Mining Africa (WiM-Africa), Dr Comfort Asokoro-Ogaji, has called for stronger African participation in global metals pricing, urging the continent to move beyond raw mineral exports by developing the market intelligence, processing capacity and financial structures that determine mineral value.
She said Africa’s vast deposits of copper, cobalt, lithium, manganese, platinum-group metals, gold and other critical minerals had not translated into commensurate influence over the international markets where their prices were determined.
Asokoro-Ogaji spoke at a roundtable on Eastern Pricing 2.0: Integrating Futures, Physical Markets, Industry and Finance f...