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SPECIALISED COMPANIES & ORGANISATIONS WORKING IN THE MINING INDUSTRY.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FOURTH "AFR1CA MINING SUMM T - AMS IV 2018" 9th _ 1QTH OCTOBER 2018, GABORONE, BOTSWANA
DearAII,
The Department of Trade and Industry of the African Union Commission is pleased to announce
the fourth Africa Mining Summit, which will be held on 9th - 10th October 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana. This year's thème is "Attracting Investment and Applying Advanced Technology to
Mining Opérations". Aside from safety, governance and regulatory challenges, the need for riskintelligent, long-term, effective investment has never been greater. Without question, the world is at an all-time-high when considering innovation, advanced technologies and entrepreneurial spirit. As improving minerai prices prompt a cautious return to growth stratégies for major miners,
spending will focus on applying advanced technology to opérations and mining minerais in demand from the high-tech sector.
The Summit will be a good opportunity to showease projects and to bring together experts and
high level officiais from African Ministries responsible for minerai resources, Régional Economie Communities (RECs), Technology Providers. African and International Private Sector Investors, International Development Agencies and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) concerned with the minerais resource development sector' impacts. In depth private discussions of projects
and investment opportunités, as well as business to business and one-to-one meeting will be prescheduled and organised during the forum to initiale partnerships. The Department is looking forward to the attendance of international actors in the mining field. There will aiso be thematic
open panel discussions on various topics, sharing expériences and best practices inthe minerais resource development. This very important forum will ultimately benefit from the practical
engagement of such actors for the sake of achieving sustainable development for Africa. It is expected that the delegates and attendees of the forum will corne with a prior preparedness to action projects during their présence in the forum.
Please note that GRV Global Limited is the event's organiser that secures the participation of leading international and local companies and organisations.
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