RareX Ltd Managing Director James Durrant was invited to speak at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC along with advisors Hunter&Co on the challenges of securing critical mineral assets in Africa for Western supply chains. James spoke of the lack of choice offered to African Governments when presented with the lure of promises of large amounts of expedited expenditure that the West’s competitors offer, in a landscape of protracted or impossible Western commercial financing options. He proposed solutions that include Western government (US, in particular) finance and diplomatic support to lower the risk profile for commercial lenders, while informing and lobbying of African governments of the Australian approach to mineral project development and the alignment to JORC, IFC Performance standards and the Voluntary Principles on security and human rights, and ethical and transparent supply chains. The thesis proposed that by offering a genuine choice for African countries in a bi-lateral or multi-lateral Australian-American approach, their collective and complementary resources and expertise can be leveraged allowing the African country to maintain their sovereignty, improve their chances of equitable growth and enhance resilience; and with that will tend to favour Western development options. The audience discussion built on this to help find practical solutions that the @Hudson Institute can start including in their policy work. RareX Ltd would like to thank Hunter&Co and Joshua Meservey for arranging the event and look forward to further contributions in this space as America and its allies build up their global critical mineral’s supply chains in aligned countries.
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