Critical mineral mining faces risks if local communities aren’t consulted enough: the case of lithium in Ghana

By Clement Sefa-Nyarko, Lecturer in Security, Development and Leadership in Africa, King's College London

Clean technologies depend on critical minerals such as lithium and cobalt. Over 65% of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 40% of the world’s manganese is mined in South Africa. Substantial deposits of lithium are found in Zimbabwe. Ghana is emerging as a miner of that mineral of lithium too.

What’s less well understood is how the supply chains of these minerals are assessed and managed.…

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