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Bullion World | Volume 6 | Issue 01 | January 2026
WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE
MINING INDABA 2026
Theme and framing:
partnerships around gold and PGMs
The overarching 2026 theme, “Stronger
together: Progress through partnerships”,
sets the tone for how precious metals
will be discussed: less as isolated
commodities, more as anchors for
collaborative investment, infrastructure
and beneficiation. Plenaries and
ministerial sessions are expected to
connect gold and PGMs to rail, power,
smelting and refining strategies, with
Mining Indaba 2026 is shaping up
as a pivotal moment for Africa’s African governments pitching integrated
precious metals value chains rather than
precious metals story, with gold and pure ore exports.
PGMs threaded through leadership
panels, commodity spotlights and Across the four days, the main stage
dealmaking forums over four content is positioned as a “world class
intensive days in Cape Town. content programme” blending strategic
For bullion, jewellery and refining outlooks, policy updates and investor
oriented analysis, which will naturally
stakeholders, the programme signals include gold and PGMs given their
a shift from price watching to value importance to African export revenues
chain building, where gold, silver and fiscal stability. Expect repeated
and PGMs are framed as strategic references to how high gold prices,
enablers of African industrialisation, platinum group metals’ role in hydrogen
green energy and capital flows. and autocatalysts, and Africa’s reserve
base can be leveraged for broader
economic diversification.
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