2023 Sponsors of the London Indaba
Mining Industry Partner - Anglo American
Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive operations, with a broad range of future development options, provides many of the future-enabling metals and minerals for a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast growing every day demands of billions of consumers. With our people at the heart of our business, we use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and to mine, process, move and market our future-enabling products to our customers – safely and sustainably.
As a responsible producer of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, premium quality iron ore and metallurgical coal for steelmaking, and nickel – with crop nutrients in development – we are committed to being carbon neutral across our operations by 2040. More broadly, our Sustainable Mining Plan commits us to a series of stretching goals to ensure we work towards a healthy environment, creating thriving communities and building trust as a corporate leader. We work together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock enduring value from precious natural resources for the benefit of the communities and countries in which we operate, for society as a whole, and for our shareholders. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives. Website: www.angloamerican.com
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Mining Industry Partner - African Rainbow Minerals
African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is a diversified mining company with operations in South Africa and Malaysia. Our key commodities include iron ore, manganese ore, platinum group metals (PGMs), nickel, thermal coal and manganese alloys. ARM also has a strategic investment in gold through Harmony Gold Mining Company. ARM’s strategy is to deliver competitive returns and create sustainable value for all stakeholders. This is achieved by operating our portfolio of assets safely, responsibly and efficiently and by allocating capital to value creating investments. ARM is also focused in value-enhancing and integrated growth. Website: www.arm.co.za
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Mining Industry Partner - Impala Platinum
Implats is a leading producer of platinum group metals (PGMs) structured around six mining operations and Impala Refining Services, a toll refining business. Our operations are located on the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe – the two most significant PGM-bearing ore bodies in the world – and the Canadian Shield, an igneous domain for PGMs.
Implats has a listing on the JSE Limited (JSE) in South Africa and a level 1 American Depositary Receipt programme in the United States of America.
Implats employs almost 50 000 people across its operations. We market and sell our products in South Africa, Japan, China, the US and Europe. The metals we produce are the key to making many industrial, medical, and electronic items, and they contribute to a cleaner, greener world. Website: www.implats.co.za
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Mining Industry Partner - Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited
Harmony is a gold-mining and exploration company, with more than six decades of experience. Harmony has operations in South Africa and in Papua New Guinea, one of the world’s most well-known gold mining regions and one of the world’s premier new gold regions respectively. Harmony produced 1.08Moz of gold in FY15 and is South Africa’s third largest gold producer and the twelfth largest in the world. Website: www.harmony.co.za
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Mining Industry Partner - Menar
Menar is a private investment company with an actively managed and growing portfolio of mining assets. Menar has invested in the following mining companies:
Canyon Coal, an exploration and mining company with operations in the Mpumalanga and Gauteng provinces of South Africa. Canyon’s operations consist of Phalanndwa collieries near Delmas, Mpumalanga and Khanye in Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng.
Kangra, a mining company with a sizeable coal operation in Mpumalanga. It is a shareholder in Richards Bay Coal Terminal with an export allocation of 1.6 million tons per annum.
Zululand Anthracite Colliery (ZAC), the sole producer of prime anthracite in South Africa. It is located in KwaZulu-Natal.
East Manganese, the first venture outside of the coal and anthracite. The mining project is situated in the Northern Cape.
We focus on achieving long-term capital growth while preserving shareholders’ capital. Capital is allocated to real assets which we actively manage with a view to realise superior earnings. Website: www.menar.com
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Mining Industry Partner - Minerals Council South Africa
The Minerals Council’s vision is to reposition the South African mining sector as South Africa’s foremost industrial sector. The Minerals Council seeks to create, in partnership with key stakeholders, a conducive policy, legislative and operating environment that facilitates doubling real investment in mining by 2030. This is an industry strategy, and the Minerals Council is a respected mining advocacy organisation that works through trust-based, problem-solving partnerships to engineer this positive turnaround in the mining industry. Achieving this vision will be a game changer for the country and its ability to achieve the National Development Plan (NDP) objectives to improve South Africa’s economic growth, developmental and transformation vision as outlined in the NDP. Website: www.mineralscouncil.org.za
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Mining Industry Partner - Royal Bafokeng Platinum
Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) is a mid-tier platinum group metals (PGMs) producer, originating from a joint venture between Anglo American Platinum and Royal Bafokeng Holdings (RBH) known as the Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum mine joint venture (BRPM JV). In 2018 RBPlat became the 100% owner of its business, following the acquisition of the 33% portion of the BRPM JV from Anglo American Platinum. RBPlat mines platinum group metals in the Merensky and UG2 reefs on the Boschkoppie, Styldrift and Frischgewaagd farms in the Rustenburg area which have been identified as hosting the last undeveloped Merensky reef on the Western limb of the Bushveld complex. RBPlat’s assets are the only known significant shallow high grade Merensky resources and reserves still available for mining in South Africa. Our strategy is underpinned by our aspiration of achieving ‘More than Mining’. Website: www.bafokengplatinum.co.za
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Mining Industry Partner - GoviEx Uranium
GoviEx is a mineral resource company focused on the exploration and development of uranium properties in Africa. The company has a sizable resource inventory with over 130M lbs U3O8 in measured and indicated categories, and 89.3M lbs U3O8 in the inferred category. GoviEx’s principal objective is to become a significant uranium producer through the continued exploration and development of its flagship mine-permitted Madaouela Project in Niger, its mine-permitted Muntanga Project in Zambia, and its multi-element Falea Project in Mali. Website: www.goviex.com
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Mining Industry Partner - Thor Explorations
Thor Explorations Ltd is a West African focussed gold producer listed on both the TSX Venture Exchange and AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange. In Q4 2021, the Company completed the construction of its 100% owned Segilola Gold Project, located in south-west Nigeria where it is currently producing gold at a projected rate of 100,000 ounces per year for an initial five years. The Segilola Gold Project has a total probable reserve of 517,800 ounces of gold grading at 4.02g//t as of March 2021. In addition to the Segilola Project, Thor holds a 70% economic interest in the Douta Gold Project located in south-eastern Senegal which has an inferred resource of 730,000 ounces of gold grading at 1.5g/t. The Douta Gold Project lies within the Kénéiba Inlier, which hosts significant gold resources and has attracted several major international mining companies. Website: www.thorexpl.com
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Premium Sponsor - Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services— creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation-led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Sponsorship Opportunities
The 2023 London Indaba on "Investing in Resources and Mining in Africa" will draw together the industry leaders, influential CEOs, investors, and custodians of the industry. 2023 Sponsor rights packages are now available.
This is a conference with a difference, providing sponsors alternative ways to expose their brands, products and services to a relevant target audience.
Tiered packages to suit all budgets have been developed and include publicity and marketing elements to realise a return on investment.
To get your brand highly exposed to a relevant and significant industry email sponsorship@resources4africa.com today!
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Resources for Africa events are supported by our numerous mining industry partners and regular sponsors:
Mining Industry Partners:
African Rainbow Minerals, Anglo American, Exxaro Resources, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited, Implats, Menar, Minerals Council South Africa, Orion Minerals, Royal Bafokeng Platinum, Sasol Mining, Seriti Coal, Sibanye-Stillwater, South32, Thungela
Sponsors:
The Joburg Indaba: Lead Sponsor - PwC; Corporate Partner Sponsors - Accenture, Deloitte, EY; Premium Sponsors - DRA Global, Fraser Alexander, Nedbank CIB, OIM Consulting; Sponsors - African Sun Mining, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, ENSafrica, M&D Construction Group, Ngubane, Rand Mutual Assurance, The Ukwazi Group
PGMs Industry Day: Lead Sponsor - EY-Parthenon; Sponsors - Auramet International, DRA Global, OIM Consulting, Anglo American Platinum
The Junior Indaba: Lead Sponsor - DRA Global; Sponsors - African Sun Mining, ENSafrica, METC Engineering, Rand Mutual Assurance
Hydrogen Economy Discussion: Lead Sponsor - EY-Parthenon; Sponsors - Deloitte, DRA Global, Anglo American Platinum
Coal & Energy Transition Day: Premium Sponsors - EY-Parthenon, Partners in Performance; Sponsors - DRA Global, Heliogen, OIM Consulting