Sitting on Ore, Importing Steel: Nigeria and Uganda’s Iron Paradox | Fava Herb Metals & Mining Report Fava Herb Commodities Intelligence Nairobi · September 2026 Metals & Mining Report — Issue III of VII — Iron Ore Sitting on Ore, Importing Steel Nigeria and Uganda hold billions of tonnes of iron ore between them. Nigeria […]
Two Metals, One Mine, Different Fates: Platinum and Palladium’s Great Divergence | Fava Herb Metals & Mining Report Fava Herb Commodities Intelligence Nairobi · September 2026 Metals & Mining Report — Issue II of VII — Platinum Group Metals Two Metals, One Mine, Different Fates Platinum is locked in its fourth consecutive year of supply […]
Uganda’s 3T sector is a fraction of Rwanda’s scale, concentrated in the southwestern Ankole region and the Karagwe-Ankolean geological system that extends the same tin-tungsten-tantalum-bearing belt across the border. The country’s most significant single asset, the Nyamuliro tungsten mine in Kabale, holds estimated reserves of 10 million tonnes of ore grading 0.5% tungsten
By Fava Herb East Africa has the ingredients for a new steel story — iron deposits, rising regional infrastructure demand and political will — but the denominating risk is simple and brutal: transport, timing and global supply will decide whether geology becomes profit. Put another way: ore matters only when it reaches a mill or […]
