The Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC)
Background
Africa is richly endowed with minerals and accounts for 5 or more percent of the global production of Aluminum, Bauxite, Chromite, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Manganese, Nickel, Phosphate Rock, Titanium, Vermiculite, and Zirconium.
Southern Africa is the continent’s leading minerals exporter, accounting for the bulk of Africa’s production of Aluminum, Chromite, Chromium, Cobalt, Copper, Graphite, Iron and Steel, Iron Ore, Lead, Manganese, Nickel, Phosphate Rock, Titanium, Vermiculite, Zinc, and Zirconium, while West Africa leads in the production of Bauxite and Alumina.
The average GDP per capita of the 28 countries in the Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC) is $3,800.
Of the 28 countries, six (Congo-Kinshasa, Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Sudan, and Zimbabwe) are mired in ongoing political or ethnic conflict, often threatening access to mines and production.
About the B&M Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC)
The B&M Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC) is a highly specialized research group of B&M analysts that provides clients with timely analysis on political, economic, political, security and social developments affecting the production and supply of 18 key minerals and metals (by 28 producing countries), and forecasts the impact of these developments on a client’s bottom-line.
The Applications for Business and Investment
MMC analysts help clients incorporate political risk management into their plans for business in Africa, especially at the point of entry and expansion.
Our flexible research model and pioneering AfriRisk Index©, the first comparative country risk index modeled to monitor, measure, and forecast political, economic, social, and security risks unique to Africa, can be adapted to track categories of risks prevalent in the African mining sector and pertinent to a client’s investment plans, including the risk of mine expropriation.
For more information, please contact The Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC) directly at mmc@bmconsultancy.net
Minerals and Metals Cluster Analysts
Our analysts are experts on the mining industry as well as on general African politics, history and business, possessing the requisite multinational language skills.
They monitor all developments affecting the sector in Africa, including those occurring within and outside of the continent.
The cluster is supported by field research analysts and on-the-ground monitors based in several producing countries, strategically positioned to help our clients navigate and manage the day-to-day political, security and social risks of doing business on the ground in Africa.
The Space
MMC conducts its research on a continental, sub-regional, national, state, provincial, municipal and industry level.
It covers all 28 minerals-rich countries individually and collectively as members of several intergovernmental producers’ unions.
MMC analysts work in close collaboration with B&M’s regional and geographic research groups to provide clients with insightful comparative analysis of the mining sector across multiple regions.
Commodities Covered (18)
Alumina
Aluminum
Bauxite
Chromite
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Graphite
Iron and Steel
Iron Ore
Lead
Manganese
Nickel
Phosphate Rock
Titanium
Vermiculite
Zinc
Zirconium
Coverage Area (28 Countries)
Algeria
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)
Egypt
Ethiopia
Gabon
Ghana
Guinea
Kenya
Libya
Madagascar
Mauritania
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Common Research Topics
The likelihood of mining contract expropriations in, particularly, politically unstable countries (i.e. Guinea and Congo-Kinshasa).
The impact of global mineral price fluctuations on political and economic stability in producing countries.
For more information, please contact the Minerals and Metals Cluster (MMC) directly at mmc@bmconsultancy.net |
