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Iron ore mine in West Africa. The Liberty Corridor railroad provides a mechanism for Ivanhoe Atlantic to get that ore to market on favourable terms. Photo: File
ARCELORMITTAL

US Congress should ask questions about the Ivanhoe Atlantic Deal

Did US ambassador to Liberia Mark Toner, US Africa bureau official Troy Fitrell, Africa adviser to the US president Massad Boulos and former US special envoy J Peter Pham have…

  • Michael Walsh
9 min read
Copper cathode sheets ready for export by truck at the Etoile open-pit copper mine, operated by Chemaf Sarl, in Katanga province near Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo. (Lucien Kahozi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
COPPER

Higher prices, demand revs up copper mining in Africa

Electrification of the global economy has created fresh demand for the ‘red metal’, pushing the price of copper to a 10-year high

  • Conrad Onyango
4 min read