A verification record for African mining
See the reconciliation before someone in the committee room finds it for you.
Afrimintel shows what can and cannot be checked in African mining: which of 40 African countries publish their mining licence registers, where the deposits are, which countries take part in mineral certification and tracing schemes, and whether companies did what they said. Every figure says which it is: sourced to a named document, derived by a published method, or marked Absent rather than filled. Below, one live record: the same asset, three filings, guidance restated twice.
As guided, 3 December 2025
380,000–420,000 t contained copper — 2026 guidance
As restated, 31 March 2026 — then again, 29 July
290,000–330,000 t copper anodes — 2026, revised
290,000–310,000 t copper — 2026, narrowed again
The issuer restated both years in its own dated filing and gave the cause. We record the restatement; it is not a finding. Three filings, three ranges. Two further things the documents show. The range guided for 2026 in December is the range guided for 2027 in March. And the measure moved with it: December guides contained copper, March guides copper anodes — a different point in the chain, across the smelter that took first feed at the end of December. We state the basis on each side and draw no conclusion from either.
Interest disclosure: this record covers a DRC asset. Afrimintel’s Editor-in-Chief holds two Great Lakes positions — Honorary Consul of Rwanda in Mauritius, and Chairman of MUA Insurance Rwanda — neither involving mining, mineral assets or any company named here. Full statement.
Afrimintel states no verdict. The record shows what each filing says, on what basis, as at what date. The conclusion is yours to draw — which is exactly what makes it usable in a committee paper. See the method.
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Free to read, no signup: the four records below and the audit log. The licence-register, traceability and deposit datasets are deposited on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0, with a permanent DOI — how to cite. The claims register is free to read but is not under CC BY; its reuse terms are at /terms/.
Four records, one standard
Each answers the same question: can this be checked, or do you have to take someone’s word for it?
LICENCE REGISTERS
Who publishes the register of mining licences
Which of 40 African countries publish a public list of who holds each mining licence, on what terms, and whether it can be downloaded. A country with no public register is recorded as a checked absence, not left blank.
DEPOSITS
Where the deposits are
Each deposit’s commodity, status and map position. These are screening positions, not surveyed, and most rows have not yet been checked one by one; the page lists the problems already found. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a permanent DOI.
TRACEABILITY
Who takes part in certification and tracing schemes
Which of the same 40 countries take part in schemes that certify or trace mineral supply chains: the ICGLR certification mechanism, iTSCi, the Kimberley Process, LBMA-accredited gold refining and national schemes. A record of what exists, not a rating of how well it works.
COMPANY PROMISES
Whether companies did what they said
What companies promised — production, first gold, financing, deals — set against what their own later filings show. A promise kept is recorded as met and a promise missed as not met, under the same rules. Afrimintel’s own promises are on the register too.
Right of reply. Every company whose promise is on the register is sent the same letter, with at least ten business days to reply, before that row appears in a Scorecard edition. Some rows are published on the register before the letter goes. Replies are published beside the row, and a reply that arrives after the window is published on the same terms. How it works ›
Every number is one of three things. Never a fourth.
Sourced — a named document with its date. Derived — calculated by a published method from stated inputs, method shown. Absent — the record doesn’t carry it, and we say so. Two screening records — environmental and social and climate — are still being brought to the dating standard; each says how far. The standard in full · the full corpus.
The two questions people actually ask
Why not just read the filings myself? You can, and for one asset you probably should. The Kamoa record above took two primary documents four months apart, plus a third filed in July, to reconcile into one line. Multiply that by the assets in a screening pass and it stops being an afternoon.
Can I cite this in a committee paper? Yes, with one condition we impose on ourselves as much as on you. Every figure in our fully checked records carries a named primary document and a date; in our screening records, each says where a source is not yet dated. The citation format sits in each record — so when counsel asks where a number came from, you can name the document and its date. Where a figure is Derived (calculated by our published method from stated inputs) or Absent (no public figure exists), our terms require you to carry that label with it. A sourced figure stands on the issuer’s filing; a derived one stands on our method, and the reader is entitled to know which. We render no verdict, which is what makes the output usable in a paper you sign.
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