The Fava Herb Metals & Mining Report is a premium data series covering the metals and minerals reshaping Africa’s role in the global economy — from gold and platinum group metals to iron ore, copper, cobalt, lithium, and rare earths. Each issue delivers institutional-grade market intelligence built for traders, investors, trade financiers, policymakers, and sovereign counterparties who need accurate, sourced, decision-ready data on African mining and metals markets.

Produced by Fava Herb’s Commodities Desk from a Nairobi base with reach across Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Sudan, this series combines global price analysis with a distinct East African lens rarely found in mainstream commodities research. Every report tracks the metrics that matter to serious market participants: global supply and demand fundamentals, price forecasts from leading financial institutions, production data by country and producer, central bank and industrial demand trends, and the beneficiation and refining policies reshaping where value is captured on the continent.

Each edition includes:

• Global price environment — forecasts and analysis from major banks and industry bodies
• Africa production data — country-by-country output, leading producers, and reserve estimates
• Regional trade and infrastructure analysis — refining capacity, export flows, and formalisation trends across East and Southern Africa
• Risk and governance notes — provenance, supply chain, and counterparty risk factors relevant to institutional buyers
• Sourced methodology — every figure traceable to a named institutional, corporate, or official source