Mines and Money @ Resourcing Tomorrow will return to London in 2024
Europe's leading mining investment event will return to the Business Design Centre in London from 3 – 5 December 2024.
As Europe's largest mining investment forum, you will hear from some of the greatest leaders in mining, investment, and finance with more than 250 speakers providing the latest market commentary, project updates and insights in tackling the big challenges facing the industry.
Throughout the three-day conference programme, you’ll also hear project updates from more than 100 mining companies, enabling investors to understand management’s vision for the business, the level of financing required, the upsides as well as the risks involved with the project, along with some of the most compelling reasons to invest.
Hajiya. Fatima Umaru Shinkafi is the current Chief Executive of the Solid Minerals Development Fund. The Solid Minerals Development Fund is a government-owned Fund established to drive investments in Nigeria’s mining sector.
As a funding vehicle, SMDF’s key role will be to maximize recovery of mining investments to drive sector growth. Under the current leadership of Hajiya Fatima, over US$500-600m of projects have been identified that SMDF could drive across formalization, data development, production and processing in the next 5 years. Hajiya Fatima has acquired extensive knowledge of the Nigerian mining sector and championed the restructuring of the Fund with the target of providing access to capital and fast-tracking development of the mining sector. Most recently in February 2023 SMDF partnered with the African Finance Corporation (AFC) to deploy project development funding and technical advisory worth $700 Billion, to fast-track closure and operations of commercial scale mining projects in Nigeria. AFC and SMDF will combine funds with innovative investment tools to co-develop mining projects to mitigate risks that would otherwise have prevented financing to drive bankability.
