Presented by Daisy Leoncio, Communications Officer of African Minerals Development Centre, Cairo, Egypt, October 2017

1. COMMUNICATING
ABOUT GEOLOGY
Daisy Diamante Leoncio
Communications Officer

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Enabling mineral resources to play a greater transformative role in the development of the continent

4. crystalline granite basement
late-Precambrian age Malmesbury Group
fine-grained greywacke sandstone and slate
huge batholith
630 million years ago as molten rock (magma)
pink feldspar crystals, glassy brown quartz and flakes of black mica
containing inclusions (xenoliths) of dark Malmesbury hornfels.
450 million years ago
The basal Graafwater Formation (300-450 m thick)

5. Communicating on Geology in generalCommunicating about Geology

6. The Paradox
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AMREC
AMDC | AMV |
CMV | UNECA
| AUC | UNDP |
AFDB
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7. • Angola, Burkina Faso,
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo
• Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia,
• Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar,
Malawi, Mali, Mauritius
• Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone,
• Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe
AMV Footprints

10. Highlights
• Development of an African mineral
resource classification system now
underway
• Chad adopts a Mining Policy and Mining
Code aligned to the Africa Mining Vision
• AMDC calls for an inclusive mineral
sector in Nigeria
• Chile eye mutually beneficial South-
South cooperation Addis
• Artisanal and small scale mining to
advance socioeconomic development
• Marine mineral resources to benefit
all including landlocked states
• African tax authorities equipped
with tools to deal with transfer
pricing issues
• AMDC and TJN-A host dialogue on
Africa's response to the commodity
crisis
• Capacity-building training in
extractives welcomed in Equatorial
Guinea
• Experts gathered to discuss a
proactive African response to
commodity price volatility

11. • Linkages, investment and diversification in
African mining: Ghana under the spotlight
• Africa Mining Vision Private Sector
Compact initiative gaining traction one
year on
• Tackling illicit financial flows – can Africa
rise to the challenge?
• AMDC scales up efforts in value creation
in mining
• Africa Mining Vision Compact reaches for
government and private sector consensus
• AMDC hosts panel session on
stemming illicit financial flows
• Congo strengthens mining
contracts for development
• Kenya ramps up its Country Mining
Vision process
• Geological Experts seek to improve
Mineral Information Systems
• Sierra Leone engages with key
stakeholders on new minerals
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18. Audience and stakeholders
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Member states
Academia
Partners
Private sector
Civil society

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Daisy Diamante Leoncio
Communications Officer