Ben Turney

• US$3.8M Motapa exploration • US$150M capital raise • 200,000 oz/year target at Bilboes Caledonia is building a gold powerhouse in Zimbabwe. #Mining #GoldMining #Zimbabwe miningzimbabwe.com/caledonia-inve…

Great to see decline mining being pursued in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, but not sure about the truck coming out of the portal…

Minerals found in Zimbabwe and areas of verified deposits... Full list>>> miningzimbabwe.com/minerals-and-l… #ZimbabweMining #MiningZimbabwe #Minerals #Lithium #Gold #Platinum #MiningAfrica #ResourceRich #InvestInZimbabwe

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Zimbabwe will return 67 farms seized from foreigners from four European countries covered by bilateral investment pacts, the country's agriculture minister said, as it seeks to mend ties with Western countries while it battles for debt relief. reuters.com/sustainability…

Contrary to popular belief, Africa doesn’t have a capital problem. $4 trillion sits in domestic capital pools across the continent: $2.5T in commercial banking assets. $455B in pension fund assets. $320B in insurance assets. $250B in public development banks. $150B in sovereign wealth funds. $473B in foreign reserves, including $38B in gold. And the numbers keep growing. • African state-owned institutions hit an all-time high of $1 trillion in AUM at the end of last year • Pension fund assets in Nigeria & Ghana reached new records of ₦29.4 trillion and GH¢100 billion in February (~$19.7B and ~$8.3B at the time, respectively) • Central banks & securities associations across the continent have aggressively raised minimum capital requirements over the last 18–24 months The problem isn't the capital. It's what the capital does. The vast majority of it sits in government securities, term deposits, and — to a lesser degree — listed equities. In Africa's largest pension markets, less than 3% of assets go to alternatives, including infrastructure. And African banks average a 74% loan-to-deposit ratio compared to 109% in other developing economies. As @Africa_Finance Corporation President & CEO Samaila Zubairu puts it: "The core challenge is not the availability of capital — but its intermediation." Long-term savings aren’t being channeled into productive sectors such as infrastructure, housing, or manufacturing. But there’s a quiet revolution happening across Africa. African states and institutions are aggressively pivoting toward domestic-led financing as global aid cuts accelerate (foreign aid to SSA was down 26% in 2025) and external investment flows become more volatile (FDI to Africa was down 38% in 2025, while global FDI rose 14%). Here's what's happening on the ground: • Institutional funds across the continent are actively moving from "passive saving" to "active value capture." In Ghana last year for example, the government first mandated 5% of its state pension fund go to private equity & venture capital in May. Then in September it signed an MOU with the country’s leading pension trustee to invest retirement funds through specialized infrastructure & SME funds. • Zimbabwe’s Mutapa Investment Fund, Ghana's Petroleum Fund, and others recently joined the Africa Sovereign Investors Forum (ASIF), an association of sovereign funds across Africa whose goal is to mobilize capital for development at scale. • The @_AfricanUnion has been accelerating its ‘5% Agenda’ to increase African institutional investment in infrastructure to 5% of AUM, while the @Mo_IbrahimFdn's NGN, various central banks, and other parties are now actively advocating for a mandated 5-10% pension fund allocation into infrastructure & regional integration. The capital exists. The plumbing is being fixed. And African capital is starting to lead. — Afridigest Intelligence — real intelligence to win in Africa's growth markets: afridigest.com/intelligence | Follow Afridigest on LinkedIn & Instagram

This is a major issue in Zimbabwe. The country’s sectors that have the most potential are also heavily capital intensive - mining, solar, agriculture Borrowing rates are a significant block to growth & the country fulfilling its enormous potential Risk capital can fill the gap

Only two countries on mainland Africa Morocco and Tunisia have finished industrial goods as their top exports. The rest of the continent? Mostly exporting raw materials: crude oil, gold, diamonds, cocoa, and other commodities with little to no value added. This map makes it clear: Africa produces, but rarely processes. Extracts, but rarely manufactures. Right now, Africa supplies the world… but doesn’t price it. Source: AfriDigest

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.

Knock, knock... (I'm NOT recommending any of these stocks—my point is about the sector: Did the World suddenly stop needing metals?)

An NVIDIA powered farming machine uses Al vision and precision lasers to eliminate weeds in milliseconds without herbicides and without harming crops, a potential shift toward chemical free agriculture

Envisaged Transport and Trade Corridors Across Africa by the European Union.

Breaking: EU decided today to lift sanctions against Zimbabwe. The arms embargo will be extended for one year. The EU is ready to strenghten engagement on the basis of mutual interests. ⁦@GermanyInAfrica⁩ ⁦@GermanyDiplo⁩ ⁦@GERonAfrica⁩ #zimbabwe

🚨 AFRICA IS THE NEXT MINERAL SUPERPOWER • 🇨🇩 DRC Cobalt + copper giant • 🇿🇲 Zambia #Copper belt • 🇿🇼 Zimbabw #Lithium surge • 🇳🇦 Namibia #Uranium + lithium • 🇿🇦 South Africa PGMs + manganese • 🇲🇦 Morocco Phosphates West Africa: • #Gold belts across Mali, Burkina, Ghana • Bauxite in Guinea • Iron ore emerging in Sierra Leone This isn’t scattered geology. It’s strategic concentration. #Energy transition metals. Battery inputs. Defense-critical minerals. If capital + infrastructure scale: • Supply chains diversify from China • Western FDI accelerates • Resource nationalism intensifies Africa isn’t peripheral to the transition. It’s central to it. #minerals #mining

This is absolutely insane: Gold just posted its largest daily swing in market cap in history, at $5.5 TRILLION. Between 9:30 AM ET and 10:25 AM ET, gold lost -$3.2 trillion in market cap, or -$58 billion PER MINUTE. Then, between 10:25 AM ET and 4:00 PM ET, gold added back +$2.3 trillion. That's over 3 TIMES the market cap of Bitcoin swung in 6.5 hours, or ~$850 billion per hour. We are witnessing one of the most historic trading opportunities of all time. Gold's volatility is above 2008 levels.

You just can't own enough Copper. Billionaire Robert Friedland sums it up perfectly..... You people have no idea whatsoever what we’re facing. “We’re consuming 30m tonnes of copper a year. Only 4m tonnes of which is recycled. That means to maintain 3% GDP growth, with no electrification, we have to mine the same amount of copper in the next 18 years as we mined in the last 10,000 years, combined. In the next 18 years, I’ve got to mine the same amount of copper as we mined the last 10,000 years. This is without any new electrification, without data centers, without solar and wind and the greening of the world economy. You people have no idea whatsoever what we’re facing.”

China is dominating critical mineral supply. - Gallium: 98% - Magnesium: 95% - Tungsten: 83% - Silicon: 77% In other words, the world is dependent on China for: - Defence - The green transition - The AI revolution Essentially everything electric or electronic. De-Chinafying supply chains will be a major investment trend.

Quantum entanglement speed is measured for the first time, and it's too fast to comprehend: earth.com/news/quantum-e…

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Tether bought more gold last quarter than every central bank.