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Bullion World | Volume 6 | Issue 01 | January 2026

Day by day: where precious metals will feature Technical and sustainability streams
While the full granular agenda is still being populated, • Technical breakouts will likely explore
the 2026 conference schedule highlights several decarbonisation of energy intensive gold and PGM
streams and sessions where precious metals will be in mines, water management, and tailings innovation,
focus over roughly four days (9-12 February). reflecting Indaba’s emphasis on “sustainable
growth” and ESG linked financing.
Opening and leadership days • Sessions on “from extraction to innovation” and
• Heads of state and ministerial keynotes are likely to “resource wealth for diversification” will examine
spotlight gold and PGMs as “critical” to both fiscal how refining, jewellery manufacturing and PGM
resilience and energy transition, especially from based industrial uses (fuel cells, catalysts) can be
South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania and other gold and scaled in country rather than offshored.
PGM heavy jurisdictions.
• A leadership session flagged in the draft agenda Deal rooms, showcases and who will be talking
around “leadership that saves lives” and safer precious metals
mining will almost certainly pull in deep level gold • Mining Indaba 2026 will again lean heavily on
and PGM operations, where safety, mechanisation structured platforms that are particularly relevant
and social performance are under intense scrutiny. to the precious metals community.

Commodity and investor focused sessions Country Showcases
• Dedicated commodity slots, including a • Gold and PGM rich countries such as South
“commodity focus - PGMs” style session, will offer Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Ghana are
open dialogue discussions on demand trends, expected to use Country Showcases to pitch
price outlooks and project pipelines in platinum, new licences, expansions and downstream
palladium and rhodium, with implications for mine opportunities in refining, jewellery and autocatalyst
life, closures and new shafts. manufacturing.
• Investor facing panels are expected to feature • These sessions typically combine ministerial
gold, silver and PGMs in the context of portfolio presentations with geological overviews and
diversification, jurisdictional risk and ESG case studies from flagship gold and PGM mines,
performance, with African producers pitching de providing a pipeline view to investors and offtakers.
risked growth stories to global funds.

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