Pan-African inventory of existing ore processing and refining capacities

The inventory of industrial mineral processing units operating in Africa, stored in conveniently structured datasets and, if possible, with economic information on the involved markets, will designed to be an instrument to assess the extension of the value chain of each type of ore, installed on the African continent. Where the information is available, each mineral processing unit will be characterized in detail, taking into consideration the adopted technological solutions and its potential for flexibility concerning the processing of different ores of a certain type. Depending on the geographic proximity and regional metallogeny, the possibilities of using existing industrial units to carry out preliminary pilot tests, enabling the development of new processing projects, will be evaluated.