Modern Quarrying Q1 2026

Collaboration among key stakeholders in Africa’s mining sector unlocks solutions to pressing challenges – like safety and environmental risks, skills shortages, rising operational costs, and price volatility – that is ambitious for any single entity to tackle alone. ROBUST STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIPS AT THE HEART OF MINING EXCELLENCE

W hen innovation emerges from such close partnerships, technology is also deployed effectively, ensuring seamless alignment with operational realities and fostering stakeholder trust. The 2026 Investing in African Mining Indaba, which was held February in Cape Town, once again united stakeholders from across the continent’s mining value chain to deepen collaboration and build a more resilient, inclusive and prosperous future for African mining. The event’s focus was on strong partnerships, aptly reflected in its overarching theme, “Stronger Together: Progress Through

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Partnerships”, which resonates with blasting, explosives, and mining chemicals solutions provider BME’s core ethos of ‘partnerships for shared innovation and problem-solving.’ Through its strategic global partnerships, BME offers forward-thinking mine-to-metals solutions that balance performance with responsibility. Delivering on its parent company Omnia Holdings purpose of “innovating to enhance life, together creating a greener future,” the company’s two core mining divisions, BME Blasting Solutions and BME Metallurgy, will be showcased its sophisticated technologies at the much-anticipated conference which underpin the full mining value chain.

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