Abathengisi begrafiti eAfrika bayandisa imveliso ukuze bahlangabezane neemfuno ezikhulayo zaseTshayina zezinto zebhetri. Ngokwedatha evela eRoskill, kwisiqingatha sokuqala sonyaka ka-2019, ukuthunyelwa kwegrafiti yendalo evela eAfrika ukuya eTshayina kunyuke ngaphezulu kwe-170%. IMozambique yeyona nkampani ithumela igrafiti eninzi eAfrika. Ibonelela kakhulu ngeeflakes zegrafiti ezincinci neziphakathi zokusetyenziswa kwebhetri. Eli lizwe laseMzantsi Afrika lithumela iitoni ezili-100,000 zegrafiti kwiinyanga ezintandathu zokuqala zonyaka ka-2019, apho ama-82% azo athunyelwa eTshayina. Kwelinye icala, ilizwe lithumele iitoni ezingama-51,800 ngo-2018 kwaye lithumele iitoni ezingama-800 kuphela kunyaka ophelileyo. Ukukhula okukhulu kokuthunyelwa kwegrafiti eMozambique kubangelwa kakhulu yiSyrah Resources kunye neprojekthi yayo yeBalama, eyaqaliswa ekupheleni kuka-2017. Imveliso yegrafiti yonyaka ophelileyo yayiziitoni ezili-104,000, kwaye imveliso kwisiqingatha sokuqala sonyaka ka-2019 ifikelele kwiitoni ezingama-92,000.
URoskill uqikelela ukuba ukususela ngo-2018-2028, imfuno yeshishini leebhetri yegrafiti yendalo iya kukhula ngesantya se-19% ngonyaka. Oku kuya kubangela imfuno iyonke yegrafiti ephantse ibe ziitoni eziyi-1.7 yezigidi, ngoko ke nokuba iprojekthi yeBalama ifikelela kumthamo opheleleyo weetoni ezingama-350,000 ngonyaka, ishishini leebhetri liya kusafuna izixhobo ezongezelelweyo zegrafiti ixesha elide. Kwiphepha elikhulu, amashishini abo abathengi bokugqibela (afana nezithinteli zomlilo, iigasket, njl.njl.) mancinci kakhulu kuneshishini leebhetri, kodwa imfuno evela eTshayina isakhula. IMadagascar yenye yezona mveliso ziphambili zeeflakes ezinkulu zegrafiti. Kwiminyaka yakutshanje, ukuthunyelwa kwamanye amazwe kwegrafiti kwesi siqithi kukhule ngokukhawuleza, ukusuka kwiitoni ezingama-9,400 ngo-2017 ukuya kwiitoni ezingama-46,900 ngo-2018 kunye neetoni ezingama-32,500 kwisiqingatha sokuqala sika-2019. Abavelisi begrafiti abadumileyo eMadagascar baquka iTirupati Graphite Group, iTablissements Gallois kunye neBass Metals zase-Australia. ITanzania iba ngumvelisi omkhulu wegrafiti, kwaye urhulumente usandula ukukhupha kwakhona iilayisenisi zemigodi, kwaye iiprojekthi ezininzi zegrafiti ziya kuvunywa kulo nyaka.
Enye yeeprojekthi ezintsha zegrafiti yiprojekthi yaseMahenge yeHeiyan Mining, egqibe uphando olutsha olucacileyo lokwenzeka kwezinto (i-DFS) ngoJulayi ukuze kuqikelelwe isivuno sayo sonyaka segrafiti egxininisiweyo. Iitoni ezingama-250,000 zinyuke zaya kwiitoni ezingama-340,000. Enye inkampani yezemigodi, iWalkabout Resources, nayo ikhuphe ingxelo entsha yokugqibela yokwenzeka kwezinto kulo nyaka kwaye ilungiselela ukwakhiwa komgodi waseLindi Jumbo. Ezinye iiprojekthi ezininzi zegrafiti zaseTanzania sele zikwinqanaba lokutsala utyalo-mali, kwaye ezi projekthi zintsha kulindeleke ukuba zikhuthaze ngakumbi urhwebo lwegrafiti lwaseAfrika neTshayina.
Ixesha lokuthumela: Sep-05-2019