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NAMIBIA MOVING TO CENTRE OF GREEN METALS MINING

the Cactus Coffee Shop has a five-star rating on Trip Advisor, an online travel company. Situated on the corner of the Old Golf Course Road and Third Avenue in Namibia’s Uis, a layby on the way to the famed Etosha National Park, the shop’s cappuccino and confection offering is one tiny example of how the Uis region has been given fresh economic impetus.

The reason? The reopening of a tin mine once operated by Iscor in the1950s before closing some 40 years later amid a squeeze in the tin price.

These days tin is one of a host of metals causing a stir globally for their ability to help the world decarbonise. The importance of this trend can’t be emphasised enough. Unlike the last metals supercycle, which was driven by the urbanisation of the

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