Insights from Mining Indaba 2025
TDi is proud to have been a strategic partner of Investing in African Mining Indaba 2025. Assheton Stewart Carter, TDi’s CEO, and Elizabeth Arnott, Responsible Mining Specialist, attended the Mining Indaba in Cape Town between 3-6 February.
Watch our daily round-up videos from the event:
Mining Indaba insights special edition podcasts
TDi has recorded a special edition series of seven podcasts focused on the key event themes, and featuring speakers from this year’s Indaba.
ESG and Junior Mining
TDi Sustainability held a breakfast meeting on the second day of the Mining Indaba to examine the tools and strategies that can help junior mining companies build a strong ESG profile and facilitate the path to investment and off-take.
In a follow-up article in the Mining Pulse magazine, Elizabeth Arnott highlights the importance of integrating ESG practices into junior mining operations to ensure sustainability and profitability. She examines some key challenges such as securing ensuring community consent, navigating local governance and security and human rights, and suggests practical solutions.
Get in touch with TDi to find out how we can help you integrate ESG at every step of your journey, and read the full article here.
Panel session on deep sea mining
TDi’s CEO Assheton Carter chaired a panel session on the implications of the development of seabed exploration for Africa at this year’s event. To build the technology and infrastructure necessary to meet the Paris Agreement, we need minerals and metals. The impetus to discover viable resources and develop reserves is strengthening. This includes areas and ecosystems that are controversial because of their political, social and/or ecological sensitivities. One of these is the deep seabed, which holds trillions of tons of minerals used in clean energy technology.
This panel brought together stakeholders in deep seabed minerals to explore which African nations are investigating their jurisdictional seabeds and which are sponsoring expeditions in international waters. The panelists discussed:
– What does deep sea mining have to offer African nations and enterprises?
– What is the status on the science on the effects of mineral development?
– Have the regulations and standards on ensuring management of adverse impacts and the mechanisms for distributing the economic benefits kept up with the pace of exploration?
– Why should Africa support or resist deep sea mining?
