Top 10 richest mineral-producing countries in Africa
Gold mine in Johannesburg
Business Insider Africa presents the top 10 richest mineral-producing countries in Africa.
This list is courtesy of a report done in 2022, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis division of The Economist Group, the sister company to The Economist newspaper.
South Africa, Nigeria, Algeria, Angola, and Libya produce more than two-thirds of Africa’s mineral wealth.
Africa is home to vast and abundant reserves of natural resources, with resources ranging from black gold popularly known as oil to large reserves of cobalt, found all across the mineral-rich lands of the Congo.
